Orphic Hymn 48

To Sabazius

THE FUMIGATION FROM AROMATICS. Hear me, illustrious father, dæmon fam’d, Great Saturn’s offspring, and Sabazius nam’d; Inserting Bacchus, bearer of the vine, And sounding God, within thy thigh divine, That when mature, the Dionysian God Might burst the bands of his conceal’d abode, And come to sacred Tmolus, his delight, Where Ippa dwells, all beautiful and bright. Blest Phrygian God, the most august of all, Come aid thy mystics, when on thee they call.