Song of Baphomet: Prayers and Hymns in the Primordial Tongue
Song of Baphomet Volume Two represents a groundbreaking achievement in contemporary pagan liturgy: a comprehensive collection of original prayers, poetry, and hymns composed entirely in Proto-Indo-European (PIE), the reconstructed mother tongue from which the languages of much of Europe, Persia, and India descended over six thousand years ago. While the first volume focused on adapting the ancient Bornless Invocation into PIE to access primordial magical currents, this second volume provides complete devotional material for modern practitioners seeking to build ongoing spiritual practice rooted in the linguistic and conceptual foundations of Indo-European spirituality. This is not academic exercise or historical curiosity but living liturgy created specifically for Neo-Pagans, Wiccans, polytheist reconstructionists, and all seekers of ancestral wisdom who recognize that language shapes consciousness and that speaking in the tongue of our distant ancestors activates resonances dormant in cultural memory.
The collection encompasses the full scope of devotional needs for contemporary pagan practice, offering invocations to the classical elements of earth, water, fire, air, and spirit that predate Greek philosophy's codification of these categories. Practitioners will find hymns honoring the sun and moon as they were understood before specific deity names crystallized around these celestial powers, chants of blessing suitable for marking life transitions from birth through death, protective verses for warding sacred space and shielding practitioners from harmful influences, and meditative texts designed for contemplative practice, trance induction, and altered states of consciousness. Each prayer serves multiple functions depending on context and intention—a solar hymn becomes morning devotion, seasonal celebration, or magical invocation for personal power depending on how the practitioner employs it within their broader spiritual framework.
Every text appears in three formats to maximize accessibility regardless of the reader's linguistic background or previous exposure to reconstructed ancient languages. The original Proto-Indo-European version preserves the prayers in their fullest power, allowing practitioners to speak words that echo across millennia and bypass the cultural conditioning embedded in modern languages. Complete English translations accompany each PIE text, ensuring practitioners understand exactly what they're declaring when they invoke these forces and allowing thoughtful engagement rather than rote recitation of sounds without comprehension. Detailed phonetic guides provide pronunciation assistance for PIE phonemes that no longer exist in most modern Indo-European languages, breaking down each word syllable by syllable so that even complete beginners can speak these prayers with confidence and accuracy. Suggested ritual uses offer practical guidance on when and how to employ specific texts within the ceremonial year, magical workings, and daily devotional practice.
Song of Baphomet Volume Two serves as both poetic literature worthy of contemplative reading and practical grimoire ready for immediate ritual application. The prayers work as standalone pieces that readers can appreciate for their linguistic artistry and mythic resonance, revealing how Proto-Indo-European's structure and vocabulary carried specific worldviews about the relationship between humans, nature, and sacred powers. Simultaneously, these texts function as working liturgy that practitioners incorporate into actual ceremonies, speaking the words aloud to invoke elemental forces, honor celestial bodies, mark sacred time, and create the verbal frameworks that structure magical practice. This dual nature makes the book valuable both to scholars of historical paganism interested in how reconstructed language illuminates ancient spiritual concepts and to active practitioners who need devotional material that connects them with ancestral currents while remaining relevant to contemporary concerns.
The collection addresses the hunger many modern pagans feel for liturgical material that predates Christianity's domination of European spiritual expression without requiring practitioners to choose between historical accuracy and living practice. By composing new prayers in Proto-Indo-European rather than attempting to reconstruct specific ancient texts that may never have existed in the forms we imagine, the author creates authentic connection to Indo-European spiritual patterns while acknowledging that contemporary practice necessarily differs from anything our ancestors would recognize. These are not ancient prayers discovered in archaeological sites but original compositions that honor ancestral linguistic and conceptual frameworks, demonstrating that reconstructed PIE can serve as living liturgical language rather than merely academic curiosity or historical artifact.
The prayers span the complete ritual year from solstices and equinoxes through cross-quarter days, addressing both the agricultural cycles that structured ancient Indo-European life and the seasonal transitions that remain meaningful even for urban practitioners far removed from direct subsistence farming. Sun hymns capture the life-giving power that sustained Bronze Age peoples while speaking to contemporary understanding of solar energy and photosynthesis. Moon prayers honor the changing faces of lunar consciousness that governed ancient calendars and still regulate tides, menstrual cycles, and the mysterious pull toward introspection during dark moon phases. Element invocations ground practitioners in the physical realities of earth, water, fire, and air that comprise our bodily existence while opening awareness to the subtle energies and consciousness patterns these elements embody in magical cosmology.
Song of Baphomet Volume Two offers Neo-Pagans and Wiccans devotional material that honors the Indo-European linguistic and mythological substrate underlying much contemporary pagan practice without requiring commitment to specific pantheons or rigid reconstructionist approaches. Practitioners can incorporate these PIE prayers into eclectic frameworks, use them alongside invocations to named deities from various cultures, or build entirely PIE-based practice that works directly with elemental and celestial forces before they received specific cultural names and attributes. The flexibility of the material allows adaptation to solitary practice or group ritual, formal ceremonial magic or spontaneous nature devotion, moon-centered goddess worship or sun-focused masculine spirituality, demonstrating that Proto-Indo-European's generative power extends beyond any single contemporary pagan tradition.
More than a prayer book, Song of Baphomet Volume Two functions as songbook for the spirit—liturgy meant to be spoken, chanted, and sung rather than merely read silently. The phonetic structures of Proto-Indo-European lend themselves to rhythmic repetition and trance-inducing vocalization, and the collection encourages practitioners to experiment with different musical settings, breathing patterns, and performance styles to discover what resonates most powerfully for their individual practice. This is living language that practitioners can adapt, modify, and personalize while maintaining connection to the deep patterns that shaped Indo-European spirituality for thousands of years before political fragmentation and cultural evolution produced the distinct traditions we now recognize as separate religions.
The book serves witches and pagans seeking to reconnect with ancestral wisdom without romanticizing the past or pretending we can fully recover what was lost when oral traditions died and languages evolved beyond recognition. By offering original liturgy in reconstructed Proto-Indo-European, Song of Baphomet Volume Two creates bridge between contemporary practice and primordial patterns, allowing practitioners to speak in tongues that shaped the spiritual imagination of peoples whose descendants now populate much of the planet. This is not about genetic ancestry or ethnic purity but about linguistic and cultural inheritance that anyone can claim through study, practice, and sincere engagement with the material. The primordial tongue remembers what civilizations forgot, and through these prayers, modern practitioners can remember too.
Speaking prayers our ancestors would recognize, for needs they would understand .