incense–aromatic herbs

Queen Antaia, 

goddess and many-named mother

of immortal gods 

and of mortal men, 

weary from searching, 

weary from wandering far and wide, 

you once ended your fast 

in the valley of Eleusis, 

you came to Hades 

for noble Persephone. 

Your guide was 

the innocent child of Dysaules, 

who brought the news

of pure Chthonic Zeus’ holy union;

you bore divine Euboulos 

by yielding to human need. 

O goddess, O queen to whom many pray, 

I beseech you

to come graciously 

to your pious initiate.