Invocation.

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Well, this is what I wrote. In the end, I was happy with it.

Phoebos Apollo, radiant and shining archer,
Pythian Apollo, Lord of Delphi and oracles,
Delian Apollo, Lord of the Island of Delos,
Delphinius,
Averter of evil, Rescuer, Protector of strangers,
Divine healer, Far-shooter. Beautiful, terrible god of truth and light,

I ask your presence. I call to you
To be here this evening and witness this rite.

Golden son of Zeus and Leto, Brother of Artemis,
Lord of the Hyperboreans most pious,
Averter of plagues, giver of foresight
I ask for your blessing of purity, your shining inspiration,
and your unparalleled song.

Apollo, brilliant one of far sight and beautiful voice,
Wine and honey I pour to you.

Ie, Paeon!

Comments

[fuego.livejournal.com]

thank you

[sherarara.livejournal.com]

You're awesome :)

I've been doing a lot of work lately with Apollo representations lately, especially with the Omphalos Apollo and Apollo the kitharode. I thought it was really great that you had such a nice poem up just when I was dealing with statuary of the same diety.

PS - I mentioned it briefly in an entry a few days ago, but I schooled a visiting Classics professor about worship of the Greek gods in America.

[fuego.livejournal.com]

I am, aren't I?

:-P

seriously though...thank you.


I mentioned it briefly in an entry a few days ago, but I schooled a visiting Classics professor about worship of the Greek gods in America.

do tell more.

[sherarara.livejournal.com]

Oh, I (and two or three other students) was talking with the keynote speaker from our colloquium about various and sundry things, and we somehow end up on the topic of religion (mainly because one of the students just can't help it but point out constantly that I am an ignorant Jew). So we started talking about Greek religion, one of them mentioned modern Greek paganism. Then the visiting professor sort of scoffed and said that no one, and certainly not in America, worships like that anymore.

To which, of course, I was all about saying that, yes, in fact, I have a friend who is very much into such "things." When he couldn't deal with the fact that he was being an ignorant ass (which I'm not doing a good job of relating here, but nonetheless), we started talking about the piety of Callimachus.

Anyway, more interesting than it probably seemed from my comment. Per usual :)