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hymns

by fourlarks

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...οἱ δέ σ' ἀοιδοὶ ᾄδομεν ἀρχόμενοι λήγοντές τ', οὐδέ πῃ ἔστι σεῖ' ἐπιληθομένῳ ἱερῆς μεμνῆσθαι ἀοιδῆς. (…It is you that we sing to, from beginning to end. In your name is the memory of every sacred song)
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hymn to gaia 04:45
Γαῖαν παμμήτειραν ἀείσομαι ἠϋθέμεθλον πρεσβίστην, ἣ φέρβει ἐπὶ χθονὶ πάνθ' ὁπόσ' ἐστίν I sing out to the Earth, the mother of all, from upon her noble foundation. She feeds everything that has ever existed in the world from her open hand…
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αἰνότατον δ' ἐνιαυτὸν ἐπὶ χθόνα πουλυβότειραν ποίησ' ἀνθρώποις καὶ κύντατον, οὐδέ τι γαῖα σπέρμ' ἀνίει: κρύπτεν γὰρ ἐϋστέφανος Δημήτηρ …Then she caused a most terrible year, for those all across the inhabited earth. Not a single seed could sprout to the surface; Demeter, once richly-crowned, kept them hidden.
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ὃς φαίνει θνητοῖσι καὶ ἀθανάτοισι θεοῖσιν ἵπποις ἐμβεβαώς: σμερδνὸν δ' ὅ γε δέρκεται ὄσσοις χρυσῆς ἐκ κόρυθος… He illuminates both men, who must die, and the Gods, who are deathless As he proceeds across the sky, his piercing eyes glare from under his helmet of gold…
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τὸν δ' οὐκ ἴσχανε δεσμά, λύγοι δ' ἀπὸ τηλόσ' ἔπιπτον χειρῶν ἠδὲ ποδῶν: ὁ δὲ μειδιάων ἐκάθητο ὄμμασι κυανέοισι… (…The bonds couldn’t hold him! As the ropes unraveled, a smile spread across his face, from his ocean-colored eyes…)
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λαμπρόταταί τ' αὐγαὶ τότ' ἀεξομένης τελέθουσιν οὐρανόθεν: τέκμωρ δὲ βροτοῖς καὶ σῆμα τέτυκται (From a great height she beams brightest; a steadfast sign for all mortals, a marker for them)
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Αἰδεῖσθε ξενίων κεχρημένον ἠδὲ δόμοιο (Show respect to the stranger in need of hospitality…)

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released May 18, 2022

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