Celtic Cross

Hymns of Orpheus


Hymn To Saturn

The Fumigation from Storax. (Try Amber, Liquidamber, or Benzoin)

Etherial father, mighty Titan, hear,
Great fire of Gods and men, whom all revere:
Endued with various council, pure and strong,
to whom perfection and decrease belong.
Consumed by thee all forms that hourly die,
By thee restored, their former place supply;
The world immense in everlasting chains,
Strong and ineffable thy power contains;
Father of vast eternity, divine,
O mighty Saturn, various speech is thine:
Blossom of earth and of starry skies,
Husband of Rhea, and Prometheus wise.
Obstetric Nature, venerable root,
From which the various forms of being shoot;
No parts peculiar can thy power enclose,
Diffused thro' all, from which the world arose.
O, best of beings, of a subtle mind,
Propitious hear to holy prayers inclined;
The sacred rites benevolent attend,
And grant a blameless life, a blessed end.

Translated by Thomas Taylor.