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The Orphic Hymns, Hymn 42: Mise, male and female

A hymn to Mise, a little-known goddess, who is called on together with Dionysus. She is male and female at once, and she is named Iakchos, the god of the Eleusinian procession.

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• 42.1 Mise, male and female. Of Mise. Incense: storax. I call Dionysus the Lawgiver, who carries the fennel wand,…
• 42.5 From the temple at Eleusis to Cyprus. whether you take your delight in the fragrant temple of Eleusis, or hold your…
• 42.8 With your mother Isis by the Nile. or exult in the holy wheat-bearing plains with your mother, the goddess, revered Isis…

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