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A Midwife’s Invocation
After [a woman] has given birth, the [ritual] with the newborn then begins. To wash it, they cast a spell on the vessel and on the water, thus:Please come forth,
My jade calabash-cup
And my mother Jade-skirted One;
Soon you will bathe here,
Soon you will cleanse here
What was born in your hands,
What came to life in your hands.
Copyright © 1982 by Michael D. Coe and Gordon Whittaker
Translated by Michael D. Coe and Gordon Whittaker. From Women in Praise of the Sacred, edited by Jane Hirshfield (New York: HarperPerennial, 1994). Used by arrangement with HarperPerennial, a division of HarperCollins Publishers, Inc.
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