Orphic Hymn 41

To The Ceralian Mother

THE FUMIGATION FROM AROMATICS. Ceralian queen, of celebrated name, From whom both men and Gods immortal came; Who widely wand’ring once, oppress’d with grief, In Eleusina’s valleys found’st relief, Discovering Proserpine thy daughter pure In dread Avernus, dismal and obscure; A sacred youth while thro’ the earth you stray, Bacchus, attending leader of the way; The holy marriage of terrestrial Jove Relating, while oppress’d with grief you rove. Come, much invok’d, and to these rites inclin’d, Thy mystic suppliant bless, with fav’ring mind.