Day of the Serpent Colors: Malachite green, sea-blue, and silver Element: Water Altar: Set a cloth of sea-blue embroidered with a great serpent in malachite green and silver, and on it place a figure of the Midgard Serpent with its tail in its mouth. Around the room strew colored ribbons in a great circle. The ritual takes place within the circle. Offerings: Cords or ribbons knotted into a circle. Daily Meal: Eel. Fish and seafood. Seaweed. Salad. Cooked greens. Eggs. Invocation to the Midgard Serpent Hail Iormundgand Child of the Trickster And the Hag of the Iron Wood, Brother and sister of Death, Neither male nor female But complete within yourself, Neither forward nor backward But eternally circling, Neither of the earth Nor apart from it But forever surrounding us In our Middle Land. Teach us, O Serpent, Of what it is to see the end And the beginning as one, To see all things In their place on the wheel, To live with the turning And not mistake it for a straight line Even when the horizon Is too far away For our weak eyes to find. Chant: Ior Ior Iormundgand (All join hands and do a circle dance around the outside of the room, just inside the serpent boundary.)