{"collection":"Classics","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/ebm/ebm07.htm","path":"cla/ebm/ebm07.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cla/ebm/ebm07.htm","text":"The Eleusinian and Bacchic Mysteries, by Thomas Taylor, [1891]\n \u039a\u039b\u03a5\u0398\u0399 \u03bc\u03b5\u03c5 \u03b1\u03b9\u03b3\u03b9\u03bf\u03c7\u03bf\u03b9\u03bf \u03b4\u03b9\u03bf\u03c2 \u03c4\u03b5\u03ba\u03bf\u03c2\u00b7 \u1f21 \u03b3\u03b5\u03bd\u03b5\u03c4\u03b7\u03c1\u03bf\u03c2\n\u03a0\u03b7\u03b3\u03b7\u03c2 \u03b5\u03ba\u03c0\u03c1\u03bf\u03d1\u03bf\u03c1\u03bf\u03c5\u03c3\u03b1, \u03ba\u03b1\u03b9 \u03b1\u03ba\u03c1\u03bf\u03c4\u03b1\u03c4\u03b7\u03c2 \u03b1\u03c0\u03bf \u03c3\u03b5\u03b9\u03c1\u03b1\u03c2\n\u0391\u03c1\u03c3\u03b5\u03bd\u03bf\u03d1\u03c5\u03bc\u03b5\u00b7 \u03c6\u03b5\u03c1\u03b1\u03c3\u03c0\u03b9\u00b7 \u03bc\u03b5\u03b3\u03b1\u03c3\u03d1\u03b5\u03bd\u03b5\u03c2\u00b7 \u03bf\u03b2\u03c1\u03b9\u03bc\u03bf\u03c0\u03b1\u03c4\u03b7\u03c1, 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\u03b3\u03b5\u03bd\u03b5\u03c3\u03c3\u03b1,\n\u039a\u03b5\u03b9\u03bc\u03b5\u03bd\u03bf\u03bd \u03b5\u03bd \u03b4\u03b1\u03c0\u03b5\u03b4\u03bf\u03b9\u03c3\u03b9\u03bd, \u1f41\u03c4\u03b9 \u03c4\u03b5\u03bf\u03c2 \u03b5\u03c5\u03c7\u03bf\u03bc\u03b1\u03b9 \u03b5\u03b9\u03bd\u03b1\u03b9\u00b7\n\u039a\u03b5\u03ba\u03bb\u03c5\u03d1\u03b9 \u03ba\u03b5\u03ba\u03bb\u03c5\u03d1\u03b9\u00b7 \u03ba\u03b1\u03b9 \u03bc\u03bf\u03b9 \u03bc\u03b5\u03b9\u03bb\u03b9\u03c3\u03c7\u03b9\u03bd \u03bf\u03c5\u03b1\u03c2 \u1f51\u03c0\u03bf\u03c7\u03b5\u03c2.\nDaughter of \u00e6gis-bearing Jove, divine,\nPropitious to thy votaries\u2019 prayer incline;\nFrom thy great father\u2019s fount supremely bright,\nLike fire resounding, leaping into light.\nShield-bearing goddess, hear, to whom belong\nA manly mind, and power to tame the strong!\nOh, sprung from matchless might, with joyful mind\nAccept this hymn; benevolent and kind!\nThe holy gates of wisdom, by thy hand\nAre wide unfolded; and the daring band\nOf earth-born giants, that in impious fight\nStrove with thy fire, were vanquished by thy might.\nOnce by thy care, as sacred poets sing,\nThe heart of Bacchus, swiftly-slaughtered king,\nWas sav\u2019d in \u00c6ther, when, with fury fired,\nThe Titans fell against his life conspired;\nAnd with relentless rage and thirst for gore,\nTheir hands his members into fragments tore:\nBut ever watchful of thy father\u2019s will,\nThy power preserv\u2019d him from succeeding ill,\nTill from the secret counsels of his fire,\nAnd born from Semel\u00e9 through heavenly sire,\nGreat Dionysus to the world at length\nAgain appeared with renovated strength.\nOnce, too, thy warlike ax, with matchless sway,\nLopped from their savage necks the heads away\nOf furious beasts, and thus the pests destroyed\nWhich long all-seeing Hecat\u00e9 annoyed.\nBy thee benevolent great Juno\u2019s might\nWas roused, to furnish mortals with delight.\nAnd thro\u2019 life\u2019s wide and various range, \u2019t is thine\nEach part to beautify with art divine:\nInvigorated hence by thee, we find\nA demiurgic impulse in the mind.\nTowers proudly raised, and for protection strong,\nTo thee, dread guardian deity, belong,\nAs proper symbols of th\u2019 exalted height\nThy series claims amidst the courts of light.\nLands are beloved by thee, to learning prone,\nAnd Athens, Oh Athena, is thy own!\nGreat goddess, hear! and on my dark\u2019ned mind\nPour thy pure light in measure unconfined;\u2014\nThat sacred light, Oh all-protecting queen,\nWhich beams eternal from thy face serene.\nMy soul, while wand\u2019ring on the earth, inspire\nWith thy own blessed and impulsive fire:\nAnd from thy fables, mystic and divine,\nGive all her powers with holy light to shine.\nGive love, give wisdom, and a power to love, \nIncessant tending to the realms above;\nSuch as unconscious of base earth\u2019s control\nGently attracts the vice-subduing soul:\nFrom night\u2019s dark region aids her to retire,\nAnd once more gain the palace of her sire.\nO all-propitious to my prayer incline!\nNor let those horrid punishments be mine\nWhich guilty souls in Tartarus confine,\nWith fetters fast\u2019ned to its brazen floors,\nAnd lock\u2019d by hell\u2019s tremendous iron doors.\nHear me, and save (for power is all thine own)\nA soul desirous to be thine alone. *\nIt is very remarkable in this hymn, that the exploits of Minerva relative to cutting off the heads of wild beasts with an ax, etc., is mentioned by no writer whatever; nor can I find the least trace of a circumstance either in the history of Minerva or Hecate to which it alludes. \u2020 And from hence, I\nthink, we may reasonably conclude that it belonged to the arcane Orphic narrations concerning these goddesses, which were consequently but rarely mentioned, and this but by a few, whose works, which might afford us some clearer information, are unfortunately lost.\n224:* Lege \u03bf\u03b2\u03c1\u03b9\u03bc\u03bf\u03c0\u03b1\u03c4\u03c1\u03b7.\n224:\u2020 Lege \u03b8\u03b5\u03bf\u03c3\u03b5\u03b2\u03b5\u03b9\u03b1\u03c2.\n224:\u2021 Lege \u03b1\u03bc\u03c5\u03c3\u03b9 \u03bb\u03c5\u03c4\u03bf\u03c5.\n224:\u00a7 Lege \u03c0\u03b5\u03bb\u03b5\u03ba\u03c5\u03c2.\n224:\u2016 Lege \u039f\u03c1\u03bc\u03b7\u03bd.\n225:* Lege \u03b1\u03bc\u03c0\u03bb\u03b1\u03ba\u03b7\u03bc\u03b1.\n225:\u2020 Lege \u03bc\u03b7\u03b4\u2019 \u03b5\u03bc\u2019 \u03b5\u03b1\u03c3\u03b7\u03c2.\n227:* If I should ever be able to publish a second edition of my translation of the hymns of Orpheus, I shall add to it a translation of all those hymns of Proclus, which are fortunately extant; but which are nothing more than the wreck of a great multitude which he composed.\n227:\u2020 If Mr. Taylor had been conversant with Hindu literature, he would have perceived that these exploits of Minerva-Athen\u00e8 were taken from the buffalo-sacrifice of Durga or Bhavani. The whole Dionysiac legend is but a rendering of the Sivaic and Buddhistic legends into a Grecian dress.\u2014A. W.","title":"The Eleusinian and Bacchic Mysteries: Hymn to Minerva","type":"page"}