Aramaic Lord's Prayer

1. Abwoon d'bwashmaya. O Birther! Father Mother of the Cosmos, you create all that moves in light.
Allaha Allah Elohim Elat ~ Names of Oneness in the Native Middle Eastern Christian, Islamic, Hebrew and Great Goddess traditions.
2. Nethqadash shehmakh. Help us let go, clear the space inside of busy forgetfulness, so the Name comes to live.
3. Teytey malkuthakh. Create your reign of unity now-through our fiery hearts and willing hands.
4. Nehwey tzevyanach aykanna d'bwashmaya aph b'arha. Your one desire then acts with ours, as in all light, so in all forms. 5. Abwoon Abwoon Abwoon Hayy. O Birther! O Life! a chant sealing the intention of the first half of the prayer and asking for the empowerment to carry it out in our lives.
6. Hawvlan lachma d'sunqanan yaomana. Grant what we need each day in bread and insight: subsistence for the call of growing life.
7. Washboqlan khaubayn (wakhtahayn) aykana daph khnan shbwoqan 1'khayyabayn. Loose the cords of mistakes binding us, as we release the strands we hold of others' guilt.
8. Wela tahlan l'nesyuna. Don't let surface things delude us.
9. Ela patzan min bisha. But free us from what holds us back (from our true purpose).
10. Metol dilakhie malkutha wahayla wateshbukhta l'ahlam almin. From you is born all ruling will, the life and the power to do, the song which beautifies all, from age to age it renews.
11. Ameyn. Truly-power to these statements- may they be the source from which all my actions grow. Sealed in trust & faith. Amen.
This version was recorded live at the Dances of Universal Peace Advanced Training Camp in August 1989 in the Main Dome at Lama Foundation, San Cristobal, NM.