{"collection":"Classics","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/hoo/hoo31.htm","path":"cla/hoo/hoo31.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cla/hoo/hoo31.htm","text":"Mother of Gods, great nurse of all, draw near,\n Divinely honor'd, and regard my pray'r:\n Thron'd on a car, by lions drawn along,\n By bull-destroying lions, swift and strong,\n Thou sway'st the sceptre of the pole divine, 5 \u00a05\n And the world's middle seat, much-fam'd, is thine.\n Hence earth is thine, and needy mortals share\n Their constant food, from thy protecting care:\n From thee at first both Gods and men arose;\n From thee, the sea and ev'ry river flows. 10\n Vesta, and source of good, thy name we find\n To mortal men rejoicing to be kind;\n For ev'ry good to give, thy soul delights;\n Come, mighty pow'r, propitious to our rites,\n All-taming, blessed, Phrygian saviour, come, 15\n Saturn's great queen, rejoicing in the drum.\nCelestial, ancient, life-supporting maid,\n Fanatic Goddess, give thy suppliant aid;\n With joyful aspect on our incense shine,\n And, pleas'd, accept the sacrifice divine.\n151:5 Ver. 5.] We have already observed, that the mother of the Gods is the same with Rhea; and Proclus, in the second book of his Commentary on Euclid, informs us, that the pole of the world is called by the Pythagoreans the seal of Rhea.","title":"The Initiations of Orpheus: XXVI: To The Mother of the Gods","type":"page"}