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in the texts

Hymn 1 to DionysusClassical · Greek

Human beings who are distant from the secret birth yet participate in naming, offerings, and sacrifice.

And so, farewell, Dionysus, Insewn, with your mother Semele whom men call Thyone.

The Father of men and gods gave you birth remote from men and secretly from white-armed Hera.

And as these things are three, so shall mortals ever sacrifice perfect hecatombs to you at your feasts each three years.

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Hymn 2 to DemeterClassical · Greek

Mortals are the human community vulnerable to famine, dependent on gods, and blessed through Demeter's mysteries.

Right blessed is he among men on earth whom they freely love:

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Happy is he among men upon earth who has seen these mysteries;

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for now she plans an awful deed, to destroy the weakly tribes of earth-born men by keeping seed hidden beneath the earth, and so she makes an end of the honors of the undying gods.

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Hymn 29 to HestiaClassical · Greek

Human beings whose dwellings, banquets, noble actions, wisdom, and strength are linked to Hestia and Hermes.

for you two, well knowing the noble actions of men, aid on their wisdom and their strength.

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For without you mortals hold no banquet, — where one does not duly pour sweet wine in offering to Hestia both first and last.

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Hestia, in the high dwellings of all, both deathless gods and men who walk on earth, you have gained an everlasting abode and highest honor:

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