🏛️ Hymn 41 - MISES [MISA]

Call Thesmophorus, spermatic God [Dionysos], of various names, who bears the leafy rod: Mises [Misa], ineffable, pure, sacred queen, two-fold Iacchus, male and female seen:

Illustr'ous, whether to rejoice is thine in incense offer'd, in the fane divine; Or if in Phrygia most thy soul delights, performing with thy mother sacred rites;

Or if the land of Cyprus is thy care, well pleas'd to dwell with Cytherea [Kythereia] fair; Or if exulting in the fertile plains with thy dark mother Isis, where she reigns, With nurses pure attended, near the flood of sacred Egypt, thy divine abode:

Wherever resident, blest pow'r attend, and with benignant mind these labours end.