Hymn to Iris
Sep. 12th, 2007 06:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
badstarWritten for Cedarlight Grove's Autumn Equinox ritual next week, to be used as part of the invocation to Iris (I've never done a shared invocation before, so this will be different...
Fair-voiced Muses, begin to sing of Storm-Footed Iris, Messenger of Heaven who travels swiftly. Oh wondrous one, born of Thaumas and Elektra, your presence is known when the rainbow graces the heavens with its fleeting colors as you race from Olympus to the world of man. Quick-running goddess clad in a thousand hues, twin to faint Arke, blessed are your golden wings which carry you and the divine messages in your charge!
To you, rainbow goddess, hail! Be gracious, Aellopus and look upon this rite with favor.
Fair-voiced Muses, begin to sing of Storm-Footed Iris, Messenger of Heaven who travels swiftly. Oh wondrous one, born of Thaumas and Elektra, your presence is known when the rainbow graces the heavens with its fleeting colors as you race from Olympus to the world of man. Quick-running goddess clad in a thousand hues, twin to faint Arke, blessed are your golden wings which carry you and the divine messages in your charge!
To you, rainbow goddess, hail! Be gracious, Aellopus and look upon this rite with favor.
