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Reader | Orphic Hymns, Hymn 29
Orphic Hymns
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| 1 | Primary Bacchus [Dionysos] I call, loud-sounding and divine, fanatic God, a two-fold shape is thine: |
| 2 | Primary Thy various names and attributes I sing, O, first-born, thrice begotten, Bacchic king: |
| 3 | Primary Rural, ineffable, two-form'd, obscure, two-horn'd, with ivy crown'd, euion, pure. |
| 4 | Primary Bull-fac'd, and martial, bearer of the vine, endu'd with counsel prudent [Eubouleos] and divine: |
| 5 | Primary Triennial, whom the leaves of vines adorn, of Jove [Zeus] and Proserpine [Persephoneia], occultly born. |
| 6 | Primary Immortal daemon, hear my suppliant voice, give me in blameless plenty to rejoice; |
| 7 | Primary And listen gracious to my mystic pray'r, surrounded with thy choir of nurses fair. |