In this ritual, all chants shall be repeated three times, and three shall be the number of the repetitions: two, thou shalt not chant, savest thou continuest on to three. Four is right out.
With the First Cup, chant slowly:
"Where there is life, there is coffee;
Where there is coffee, there is life"
With the Second Cup, chant ( with swing):
"We love the Goddess Caffeina,
We love to drink her Java"
With the Third Cup:
"OoomphjavajavaoomphjavajavaOoomphjavajava"
It is by Caffeina alone
that I set my mind in motion.
By the Beans of Java,
my thoughts acquire speed.
The hands acquire the shakes,
the shakes become a warning.
It is by Caffeina alone
that I set my mind in motion...
- attributed to Isaac Bonewits
The following ritual was found in a musty, dusty old fragment of parchment lodged between the musty old pages of a musty, dusty old book in a musty, dusty old library whose musty, dusty old dust hadn't been disturbed by the presence of man in many a musty, dusty old century. It took a great deal of effort to translate the original writings.
After months of effort and research in language libraries, it was finally determined that the weird script was not some arcane, forgotten language, but English, written by someone with a very bad case of caffeine jitters.
Another fragment indicated that this was once part of a book, entitled "The Mystery of the StarBuck".
This last, the Mystery of the StarBuck, I believeth to be a later,
heretical inclusion. Related to this is the intonation at the right
shoulder, which is "Frappuccino", which I have here Restored to
what I believe to me the True intonation.
Bring your coffee cup to your forehead and intone: "LATTE"
Lower your coffee cup to the vicinity of your navel: "MOCHA"
Bring your coffee cup to your left shoulder: "CAPPUCCINO"
Bring it across to your right shoulder: "ESPRESSO"
Clasp your coffee cup in both hands over your heart chakra: "ARABICA, OH MAN!"
Extend your arms
to the sides, and intone:
"BEFORE ME, MRS.
OLSON"
"BEHIND ME, JUAN
VALDEZ"
"AT MY RIGHT HAND,
M J B"
"AT MY LEFT HAND,
THE BROTHERS HILLS"
"FOR ABOUT ME SWIRLS
THE COFFEE AROMA"
"WITHIN ME SINGS
THE CAFFEINE HIGH"
Drink the coffee, in communion with the spirits of the Sacred Coffee Bean.
Put the cup to your lips
Take a big swig
Intone "GODS, I NEEDED
that!"
Consider that the sacred Coffee Bean cometh originally from the neighborhood of the Middle East.
Then know that in ancient times, in the land of the Hebrews, and their neighbors the Canaanites, the populace that did not live in the cities, but were the majority of the population, the farmers and herders, did worship several Gods and Goddesses. Indeed, tens of thousands of their ceramic goods have been found in that area of the world, with inscriptions "To Asherah and Her Yaweh".
Now, it is well known that language doth shift over time, with "p" becoming "b", etc., and it is clear that the same hath occurred in this case, as this may be equally well pronounced as being "To Asherah and Her Java"
It is obvious from this how She appreciated Her morning cup of Java, and how She obtained also the appellation of Caffeina.