A Hymn to the Mother of the Gods

by Homer — a poem card from Justes Mots

A Homeric hymn to the Mother of the Gods (Cybele), celebrating her universal dominion over deities and mortals, her association with music and ecstatic celebration, and her connection to wild nature through lions and wolves. The prayer seeks her honor and the Muses' eternal celebration. Appropriate for classical reverence and divine feminine power.

Mother of all, both Gods and men, commend,
O Muse, whose fair form did from Jove descend;
That doth with cymbal sounds delight her life,
And tremulous divisions of the fife;
Love’s dreadful lions’ roars, and wolves’ hoarse howls,
Sylvan retreats, and hills, whose hollow knolls
Raise repercussive sounds about her ears.
And so may honour ever crown thy years…

Themes: love · new-baby · wedding · friendship