The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns

The law-bringing, fennel-bearing Dionysos I call,

much-remembered seed, of many names, of Eubouleus,

and holy, well-hallowed Mise, the unspeakable queen,

male and female, twofold, Iakchos the loosener;

5whether you take your delight in the smoking temple at Eleusis,

or keep the mysteries in Phrygia with the Mother,

or delight in Cyprus with fair-crowned Kythereia,

or glory in the holy wheat-bearing plains

with your mother the goddess, august black-robed Isis,

10beside the stream of Egypt, with your attendant foster-mothers;

may you come with favour, bringing good things to pass upon these contests.