[28] XXVIII. TO PROSERPINE [PHERSEPHONE]

28] XXVIII. TO PROSERPINE [PHERSEPHONE] A Hymn. Daughter of Jove [Zeus], almighty and divine, come, blessed queen, and to these rites incline: Only-begotten, Pluto's [Plouton's] honor'd wife, O venerable Goddess, source of life: -Persephone is the daughter of Hod and Zues and a queen thus wears a divine crown. she is teh wife of hector or pluto or hades depenbding. revered as teh source of life and teh wueen of teh dead, only beggotten and not created. 'Tis thine in earth's profundities to dwell, fast by the wide and dismal gates of hell: Jove's [Zeus'] holy offspring, of a beauteous mien, fatal [Praxidike], with lovely locks, infernal queen: -dwelling in the profoundness of matter and earth both guarding and with the gates of hell and hades. also of death and the locks of bueaty and morbidity as its dress. Lovely and infernal. Source of the furies [Eumenides], whose blest frame proceeds from Jove's [Zeus'] ineffable and secret seeds: Mother of Bacchus [Eubouleos], Sonorous, divine, and many-form'd, the parent of the vine: The dancing Hours [Horai] attend thee, essence bright, all-ruling virgin, bearing heav'nly light: -seeding the wisdom of magic, grace and scorcery, source of power and essence there of, Gods powewr channeled as jove through her and dfirectly courced as well., source mother of baccus , merciful. source of life and the little deaths like the sex of baccus. the secred seeds of zues emplanted as ways of mystery as well. as darring jours setting brighhtness and gift as a pamayia pr better yet a [arthena, ever virgin and mother of God, from parthenon, par with Godz enlighhtner too. Illustrious, horned, of a bounteous mind, alone desir'd by those of mortal kind. O, vernal queen, whom grassy plains delight, sweet to the smell, and pleasing to the sight: -illuminating both of mankind and Gods. immortal and mortal subjects. whose plain is fragrant and bueatiful to be in, in those high places where God(s) stand. Whose holy form in budding fruits we view, Earth's vig'rous offspring of a various hue: Espous'd in Autumn: life and death alone to wretched mortals from thy power is known: - whose holy form is many and of place in natures forms of various colours and types. thy wisdom is known and you are all knowing over teh mortals living and dead, gtom such knowledge of deatha dn life power is set to be kbnown and excercised. For thine the task according to thy will, life to produce, and all that lives to kill. Hear, blessed Goddess, send a rich increase of various fruits from earth, with lovely Peace; - life as precious you have but to kill all by grace odf blood covent such as holy cups of ritual we enduce. bring peace creating fruits of labours wisdom and holy fruit of knowledge and pqwoer. not all things die but all can be ritualliscally killed witha blessing that brings no death. Send Health with gentle hand, and crown my life with blest abundance, free from noisy strife; Last in extreme old age the prey of Death, dismiss we willing to the realms beneath, To thy fair palace, and the blissful plains where happy spirits dwell, and Pluto [Plouton] reigns. - bless life with abundance and health free from bad disruptions.- a prayer to aging and death to bless those places beyond so we can with out tribulations and pain live immortally as good people in thy places , plains and realms of hades. http://www.theoi.com/Text/OrphicHymns1.html