🏛️ Hymn 70 - MELINOE

Call Melinoe, saffron-veil'd, terrene, who from infernal Pluto's sacred queen [Phersephone], Mixt with Saturnian Jupiter [Kronion Zeus], arose, near where Cocytus' mournful river flows;

When under Pluto's [Plouton's] semblance, Jove [Zeus] divine deceiv'd with guileful arts dark Proserpine [Phersephone]. Hence, partly black thy limbs and partly white, from Pluto [Plouton] dark, from Jove [Zeus] etherial, bright Thy colour'd members, men by night inspire when seen in specter'd forms with terrors dire;

Now darkly visible, involv'd in night, perspicuous now they meet the fearful fight. Terrestrial queen expel wherever found the soul's mad fears to earth's remotest bound;

With holy aspect on our incense shrine, and bless thy mystics, and the rites divine.