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Sibylline Hymns

First translated by Thomas Taylor in 1792, the Hymns of Orpheus here have been retranslated in a style unrestrained by the eighteenth century's insistence on rhyme. Hesiod and Homer, and a myriad of anonymous sacred poets of antiquity are echoed in these Hymns, and so it seems only fitting that today, modern Pagans rediscover these songs of their ancestors. Some of the deities named in this work came from Africa, Gaul, Libya, Anatolia Turkey, Phrygia, Greece, Eutruscia, Britain, Crete, Cythia, the ancient Hesperides, and the Canary Islands. Both the Greeks and the Romans borrowed extensively from other cultures; frequently subordinating foreign gods and making them subject their own pantheon or forcing the ultimate supremacy of Zeus above all others. Still, the roots of these hymns are easy find and restore.~ by Virginia Stewart-Avalon Sibylline Priestess and Elder.

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