Orphic Hymn 15

To Jupiter

THE FUMIGATION FROM STORAX. O Jove, much-honour’d, Jove supremely great, To thee our holy rites we consecrate, Our pray’rs and expiations, king divine, For all things to produce with ease thro’ mind is thine. Hence mother Earth and mountains swelling high Proceed from thee, the deep and all within the sky. Saturnian king, descending from above, Magnanimous, commanding, sceptred Jove; All-parent, principle and end of all, Whose pow’r almighty shakes this earthly ball; Ev’n Nature trembles at thy mighty nod, Loud-sounding, arm’d with light’ning, thund’ring God. Source of abundance, purifying king, O various-form’d, from whom all natures spring; Propitious hear my pray’r, give blameless health, With peace divine, and necessary wealth.