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Thoth-Hermes-Mercury Devotional PantheaCon 2013 Devotional 

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Thoth - Hermes - Mercury

Hermes Invocation Song

Here is a link to the bandcamp page that Yeshe Rabbit set up with the lyrics in a printable format:

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Hymns to Hermes

Hermes Ouranious 

Hermes, draw near, and to my pray’r incline, 
Angel of Jove, and Maia’s son divine; 
Prefect of contests, ruler of humankind, 
With heart almighty, and a prudent mind. 
Celestial messenger of various skill, 
Whose pow’rful arts could watchful Argus kill. 
With winged feet ’tis thine thro’ air to course, 
O friend of folk, and prophet of discourse: 
Great life-supporter, to rejoice is thine 
In arts gymnastic, and in fraud divine. 
With pow’r endu’ all language to explain, 
Of care the loos’ner and the source of gain. 
Whose hand contains of blameless peace the rod, 
Corucian, blessed, profitable God. 
Of various speech, whose aid in works we find, 
And in necessities to mortals kind. 
Dire weapon of the tongue, which folk revere, 
Be present, Hermes, and thy suppliants hear; 
Assist our works, conclude our lives with peace, 
Give graceful speech and memory’s increase. 

Hermes Cthonios 
Hermes, I call, whom Fate decrees to dwell 
Near to Cocytos, river of hell, 
And in Necessity’s dread path, whose bourn 
To none that reach it e’er permits return. 
O Bacchic Hermes, progeny divine, 
Of Dionysius, parent of the vine, 
And celestial Venus, Paphian queen, 
Dark-eyelash’d Goddess of a lovely mien: 
Hermes, Who wand’rest thro’ the sacred seats 
Where Hell’s dread empress, Proserpine, retreats; 
To wretched souls the leader of the way 
When Fate degrees, to regions void of day. 
Thine is the wand which causes sleep to fly, 
Or lulls to slumb’rous rest the weary eye; 
For Proserpine, thro’ Tart’rus dark and wide, 
Gave thee for ever flowing souls to guide. 
Come, blessed pow’r, this offering attend, 
And grant thy mystes’ works and happy end.
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