Orphic Hymn 42

To Misa

THE FUMIGATION FROM STORAX. I call Thesmophorus, spermatic God, Of various names, who bears the leafy rod: Misa, ineffable, pure, sacred queen, Twofold Iacchus, male and female seen. Illustrious, whether to rejoice is thine In incense offer’d in the fane divine; Or if in Phrygia most thy soul delights, Performing with thy mother sacred rites; Or if the land of Cyprus is thy care, Pleas’d with the well crown’d Cytheria fair; Or if exulting in the fertile plains With thy dark mother Isis, where she reigns, With nurses pure attended, near the flood Of sacred Egypt, thy divine abode: Wherever resident, benevolent attend, And in perfection these our labours end.