This is a static copy of In the Rose Garden, which existed as the center of the western Utena fandom for years. Enjoy. :)

#1 | Back to Top05-23-2012 07:09:11 AM

Overlord Morgus
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Does anyone know of any good fictional prayers?

I know of the Dragon Slave incantation from Slayers and the Sith prayer from the Star Wars expanded universe. Also, those kamikaze-style poems from the beginning of Ikaruga. Know of anything else?

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#2 | Back to Top05-23-2012 08:42:55 AM

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Re: Does anyone know of any good fictional prayers?

In Dune, there's the Bene Gesserit litany against fear, always a favorite.


The first time you looked at her curves you were hooked
And the glances you took, took hold of you and demanded that you stay
And sunk in their teeth, bit your heart and released
Such a charge that you need another touch, another taste, another fix

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#3 | Back to Top05-23-2012 11:05:29 AM

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Re: Does anyone know of any good fictional prayers?

I remembered that one like 10 minutes after walking away from the computer.

And this is the one from Ikaruga:

I am not alive, thus I can not die.
I will not give up even if my Ideal is not fulfilled.
My will, just like my regrets, will never end.

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#4 | Back to Top05-23-2012 09:38:32 PM

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Re: Does anyone know of any good fictional prayers?

And shepherds we shall be, for thee my Lord for thee, power hath descended forth from thy hand, that our feet may swiftly carry out thy command. We shall flow a river forth to thee, and teeming with souls shall it ever be. In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.

-Boondock Saints.


Whatever you find worthwhile in life, is worth fighting for!

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#5 | Back to Top05-24-2012 02:23:31 AM

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Re: Does anyone know of any good fictional prayers?

Ashnod has advised me to not post in this thread. emot-biggrin


I have left this forum. If you wish to contact me, ask Ashnod or Satyreyes how I may be reached.

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#6 | Back to Top05-24-2012 07:52:46 AM

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Re: Does anyone know of any good fictional prayers?

Does the Hymn of the Fayth count?


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#7 | Back to Top05-24-2012 07:12:53 PM

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Re: Does anyone know of any good fictional prayers?

I haven't confirmed these words with any website, nor have I read the books in a decade.  I couldn't even tell you which of the books this one is from.  But I guess the words stuck in my head well enough for me to remember them.

Return this man to Huma's breast,
Beyond the wild, impartial skies.
Grant to him a warrior's rest,
And set the last spark of his eyes
Free from the smothering clouds of wars,
Beyond the torches of the stars,
And let the last surge of his breath
Take refuge in the cradling air,
Above the dreams of ravens, where
Only the hawk remembers death.
Then let his shade to Huma rise,
Beyond the wild, impartial skies.


From one or another of the Dragonlance books.  In hindsight, the writing in most of those books was execrable.  The poems, though, were always a high point.

Edited to add: I looked it up.  I got almost everything substantially right, except that "beyond" in line 6 should be "upon," which is much better.

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#8 | Back to Top06-18-2012 01:26:00 AM

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Re: Does anyone know of any good fictional prayers?

This is not really a prayer, but it is a little bit considering how Puella Magi Madoka Magica ended. (Warning, spoilers!)


"Don't forget.
Always, somewhere,
someone is fighting for you.
As long as you remember her,
you are not alone."


And the Meduka Meguca fan-parody version is:

"as I fight,
she watch me
so i pray
never to forget...
that being Meguca was suffering"

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#9 | Back to Top09-04-2012 10:00:21 PM

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Re: Does anyone know of any good fictional prayers?

More of a pledge than a prayer.



We, the people, pledge allegiance to the technocratic empire. May our nation prevail in the name of technology. May our enemies and traitors succumb to the rumbling sound of our holy machinery of scientific war, for it is the art, the cause and the glory which will lead us to victory.

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#10 | Back to Top09-05-2012 03:30:06 AM

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Re: Does anyone know of any good fictional prayers?

Kalahira, mistress of inscrutable depths, I ask forgiveness.
Kalahira, whose waves wear down stone and sand—
Kalahira, wash the sins from this one and set her on a distant shore of the infinite spirit.
Kalahira, this one’s heart is pure, but beset by wickedness and contention.
Guide this one to where the traveller never tires,
The lover never leaves,
The hungry never starve.
Guide this one, Kalahira, and she will be a companion to you as she was to me.


Thane's Prayer for Fem!Shep - Mass Effect 3

Amonkira. Lord of Hunters. Grant that my hands be steady, my aim be true, and my feet swift. And should the worst come to pass, grant me forgiveness.

Prayer to Amonkira - Mass Effect 2


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#11 | Back to Top09-05-2012 03:47:37 AM

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Re: Does anyone know of any good fictional prayers?

"I'm not normally a praying man, but if you're up there, please save me, Superman!" - Homer Simpson, invoking the god we can rely on

"Can't we all just be nice and make babies?" the angel, Zauriel, from mid-90s Justice League of America

"'Vengeance is mine,' sayeth the Lord, but I'll help. Amen." - Sister Sara, Evil Come, Evil Go

"Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn" - via Lovecraft's careful documentation of weird cults

And, William Burroughs' grand Thanksgiving Prayer:

"Thanks for the wild turkey and the passenger pigeons, destined to be shit out through wholesome American guts
thanks for a Continent to despoil and poison
thanks for Indians to provide a modicum of challenge and danger
thanks for vast herds of bison to kill and skin, leaving the carcass to rot
thanks for bounties on wolves and coyotes
thanks for the American Dream to vulgarize and falsify until the bare lies shine through
thanks for the KKK, for nigger-killing lawmen feeling their notches, for decent church-going women with their mean, pinched, bitter, evil faces
thanks for Kill a Queer for Christ stickers
thanks for laboratory AIDS
thanks for Prohibition and the War Against Drugs
thanks for a country where nobody is allowed to mind his own business
thanks for a nation of finks—yes,
thanks for all the memories all right, lets see your arms you always were a headache and you always were a bore
thanks for the last and greatest betrayal of the last and greatest of human dreams."


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#12 | Back to Top09-06-2012 03:22:09 PM

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Re: Does anyone know of any good fictional prayers?

Do religiously coloured oaths count? Because this is the bit that stuck to me most from The Silmarillion:

“Be he foe or friend, be he foul or clean
Brood of Morgoth or bright Vala,
Elda or Maia or Aftercomer,
Man yet unborn upon Middle-earth,
Neither law, nor love, nor league of swords,
Dread nor danger, not Doom itself
Shall defend him from Fëanáro, and Fëanáro’s kin,
Whoso hideth or hoardeth, or in hand taketh,
Finding keepeth or afar casteth
A Silmaril. This swear we all…
Death we will deal him ere Day’s ending,
Woe unto world’s end! Our word hear thou,
Eru Allfather! To the everlasting
Darkness doom us if our deed faileth…
On the holy mountain hear in witness
and our vow remember,
Manwë and Varda!"


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