Wikipedia has:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ash_Wednesday
Catholic Encyclopedia:
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01775b.htm
About:
http://catholicism.about.com/od/holydaysandholidays/f/2008_Ash_Wed.htm
A Gnostic Homily:
http://www.gnosis.org/ecclesia/homily_AshWednesday.htm
Psalm 51:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psalm_51
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bible%2C_King_James%2C_Psalms#Psalm_51
And the ash is also Yggdrasil, the old Norse 'world tree'... and didn't Odin hang himself upside down there, and pierce his own side, until he brought the word of the Runes into being?
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