Ganga Puja
June 19, 2007
“Your hills, O Earth, your snow clad mountain peaks,
your forests, may they show us kindliness!
Brown, black, red, multifareous in hue
and solid is htis vast Earth, guarded by Indra.
Invincible, unconquered, and unharmed,
I have on her, established my abode.
…may this great Earth assure us of life and breath,
permitting us to come to ripe old age.”
-Atharva Veda