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Hymn to the Mother Antagonized  #HymnsOfOrpheus

12/15/2014

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Translated by Catherine Proppe
December 15, 2014


41. Μητρὸς Ἀνταίας, θυμίαμα ἀρώματα.


Mother Antagonized[1]

Divine medium: aromatics

 

Ἀνταία βασίλεια, θεά, πολυώνυμε μῆτερ

Antagonized Basileia[2], Goddess of many-realms, Mother of

 

ἀθανάτων τε θεῶν ἠδὲ θνητῶν ἀνθρώπων,

Immortal deities and mortal humans,

 

ἥ ποτε μαστεύουσα πολυπλάγκτωι ἐν ἀνίηι

When searching many directions in great distress

 

νηστείαν κατέπαυσας Ἐλευσῖνος ἐν γυάλοισιν

Fasting, you paused in Eleusis’[3] valley

 

ἦλθές τ' εἰς Ἀίδην πρὸς ἀγαυὴν Περσεφόνειαν

Then on to Aidon’s realm[4] led to august Persephone[5],

 

ἁγνὸν παῖδα Δυσαύλου ὁδηγητῆρα λαβοῦσα,

Pure child, your desolate[6] journey released

 

μηνυτῆρ' ἁγίων λέκτρων χθονίου Διὸς ἁγνοῦ,

Information of the pure marriage-bed of earthly pure Dios[7],

 

Εὔβουλον τέξασα θεὸν θνητῆς ἀπ' ἀνάγκης.

Good counseling[8] child-bearer of divine mortal necessity[9],

 

ἀλλά, θεά, λίτομαί σε, πολυλλίστη βασίλεια,

Yet, Goddess, humbly and often entreated, Basileia,

 

ἐλθεῖν εὐάντητον ἐπ' εὐιέρωι σέο μύστηι.

Come with fair reciprocity upon good holy mystae[10].


[1] The immortal mother Goddess Demeter was antagonized by her daughter’s kidnapping and refused to allow new life on earth until her daughter was returned to her.


[2] Basileia means Queen.


[3] Eleusis is a famous city on the Rarian Plain, home to the Eleusinian Mysteries of the Mother and Daughter.


[4] Aidon is the immortal God of the afterlife.


[5] Persephone is the immortal Goddess of the afterlife and springtime rebirth.


[6] Dysaulos means inhospitable, bad for lodging, unhappy, desolate.


[7] Here “Dios” refers to Pluto/Aidon, the God of the afterlife.


[8] Aidon often is termed “good counselor,” perhaps because reflecting on one’s mortality can clarify decisions?


[9] Ananke is the immortal Goddess of what is necessary, of what is required, inevitable, unavoidable. In this case, presumably the necessities for mortals are birth and death.


[10] Mystae are initiates in the Mysteries.


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