In honour of Gæa
- Gæa Chthonia
- Mater Panton
- Mother Earth
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Bréf til framtíðarinnar
Ok er fyrsti nafnkunni jökullin til að missa titil sinn.
Á næstu 200
árum er talið að allir jöklar landsins fari sömu leið.
Þetta
minnismerki er til vitnis um að við vitum
hvað er að gerast og hvað
þarf að gera.
Aðeins þú veist hvort við gerðum eitthvað.
A letter to the future.
Ok is the first Icelandic glacier to lose its status
as a glacier.
In the next 200 years all our glaciers are expected to
follow the same path.
This monument is to acknowledge that we know
what
is happening and what needs to be done.
Only you know if we did it.
415 ppm CO2
O Mother Earth, of Gods and men the ſource,
endured
with fertile, all-deſtroying force;
All-Parent, bounding, Whoſe prolific
powers
produce a ſtore of beauteous fruits and flowers.
All-various
Queen, the immortal world’s ſtrong base,
eternal, bleſsèd, crowned with
every grace;
from Whoſe wide womb as from an endleſs root,
fruits
many-formed, mature, and grateful ſhoot.
Broad-boſomed, bleſsed, pleaſed
with graſsy plains,
ſweet to the ſmell, and with prolific rains.
All-flowery
Dæmon, Centre of the world,
around Thy ſphere the beauteous ſtars are
hurled
with rapid whirl, eternal and divine,
Whoſe frames with
matchleſs ſkill and wiſdom ſhine.
Come, bleſsèd Goddeſs, liſten to my
prayer,
and make increaſe of fruits Thy conſtant care;
with fertile
ſeaſons in Thy train draw near,
and with propitious mind Thy ſuppliants
hear.