The Gnome Wizard
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Gnome Wizard | Kitchen Witch | Green Witch Forever seeking magical knowledge & nature’s secrets. Growing Herbs and Fungi infused with magic and intent.
Gnome Wizard | Kitchen Witch | Green Witch Forever seeking magical knowledge & nature’s secrets. Growing Herbs and Fungi infused with magic and intent.
![28] XXVIII. TO PROSERPINE [PHERSEPHONE]
A Hymn.
Daughter of Jove [Zeus], almighty and divine, come, blessed queen, and to these rites incline:
Only-begotten, Pluto's [Plouton's] honor'd wife, O venerable Goddess, source of life:
'Tis thine in earth's profundities to dwell, fast by the wide and dismal gates of hell:
Jove's [Zeus'] holy offspring, of a beauteous mien, fatal [Praxidike], with lovely locks, infernal queen:
Source of the furies [Eumenides], whose blest frame proceeds from Jove's [Zeus'] ineffable and secret seeds:](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:b6enskf433t4taqluyerhzpx/bafkreie3tt2wnlawcf2oczz5txzosg6fhtrb4vzm4ci2syd2hddfhdhnpu)
![Mother of Bacchus [Eubouleos], Sonorous, divine, and many-form'd, the parent of the vine:
The dancing Hours [Horai] attend thee, essence bright, all-ruling virgin, bearing heav'nly light:
Illustrious, horned, of a bounteous mind, alone desir'd by those of mortal kind.
O, vernal queen, whom grassy plains delight, sweet to the smell, and pleasing to the sight:
Whose holy form in budding fruits we view, Earth's vig'rous offspring of a various hue:
Espous'd in Autumn: life and death alone to wretched mortals from thy power is known:
For thine the task according to thy will, life to produce, and all that lives to kill.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:b6enskf433t4taqluyerhzpx/bafkreicmh4bu6nxwtuk62mmztjcwgltnvq2lb577erbglkroofiywekusi)
![Hear, blessed Goddess, send a rich increase of various fruits from earth, with lovely Peace;
Send Health with gentle hand, and crown my life with blest abundance, free from noisy strife;
Last in extreme old age the prey of Death, dismiss we willing to the realms beneath,
To thy fair palace, and the blissful plains where happy spirits dwell, and Pluto [Plouton] reigns.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:b6enskf433t4taqluyerhzpx/bafkreidwle5ves3gcojy74rqckndwk7lns7demlzumaklkcwtfi3yo6f4y)
