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For the Dead

Ancestral Adoration

Be blessed, oh Spirits above and Spirits below. Be blessed, oh you my Dead, both known and unknown; you my beloved, be blessed! You from the other side, by lights, my hope, my eternities in birdsong, be blessed!

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Arise, Mothers!

Rise up for me, O Mothers! It is I, your Rosy-Armed Daughter.

I have come to you, just as God might come to your side. I have come into your presence, just as God might come. I have come to you to cleanse you and make you pure; To gather up your bones and bring you life, And rejoin to that memory which has been severed. May you awake in peace.

I will sing of your lovely faces ever smiling, I will sing of the anointing oil ever dripping from your braids. I will sing of your Divine honors, O Gold-Enthroned Mothers; You who dwell below, in the Temple of the earth. Many-named are you revered ones- the ancestors of our fathers. The world is born of you.

Personally adapted from a combination of Pyramid Text 270, Pyramid Text 606 ('Hymns, Prayers, and Songs: An Anthology of Ancient Egyptian Lyric Poetry'), the Homeric Hymn to Cyprian Aphrodite, Homeric Hymn to Hestia, and Homeric Hymn to Hera ('The Homeric Hymns: A Translation, with Introduction and Notes'), and the Orphic Hymn to The Mother of the Gods, and Orphic Hymn to the Titans ('The Orphic Hymns')