THE SCARLET EDDA

The Prayer to Gorm

by ALLEN MACKEY

Note: This liturgical work can be found in The Scarlet Edda, one of
the unbelievably ancient tomes of sunken Lemuria. Lin Carter had
written of the Nineteen Gods of Lemuria, and Gorm was the All-
Father, roughly analogous to the Nordic concept of Odin (Wotan).

The Prayer to Gorm

Gorm-Ha! O mighty Gorm!

O High-Father, grant the power,

The strength and the will,

To conquer the enemies of men!

Strike down the Dragon-Lords!

The reign of men is now upon the Earth!

Commentary: The text is from the Dr. Walter Goodwin edition of The
Scarlet Edda, which was published in a very limited run in 1921, five
years after Professor Harold Hadley Copeland's disastrous
publication of The Zanthu Tablets. Due to the academic furor
generated by Copeland's excoriated work, The Scarlet Edda was
essentially ignored by university researchers. Despite the lack of
attention, Dr. Goodwin followed up the next year with The Lemurian
Chronicles, which included an account of how he had found remnants
of both ancient tomes while exploring the Pacifica ruins of Nan-
Madol in 1912, and how (upon his return to the United States, after
some time adventuring in Asia) he had pain-stakingly spent the next
several years translating the remarkably well preserved texts with the
Naacal Key, a hand-written copy of which had been loaned to him by
Colonel James Churhward. Lin Carter was suitably impressed with
Dr. Goodwin's work, and made many references to the Lemurian
documents in his early fiction of Thongor of Lemuria.

Sanbourne Institute for Pacific Studies in Santiago, California in 1916