Incense: Powdered Frankincense
Whose racing fire shines though the air.
With an ear-splitting clap your light flashes through the clouds,
O horrid, wrathful, pure, and invincible god.
Upon you I call, lord of lightening, begetter of all and great king,
To be kind and bring a sweet end to my life.
Incense: Myrrh
You give rain as you are driven everywhere by the wind.
Filled with blazing thunder and water, you resound with awesome crashes
In the air-filled vault of heaven when you are repelled by the onrush of raging winds.
To you I pray, you whose dewy cloaks are blown by fair breezes,
Send fruit-nourishing rains to mother earth.
Incense: Pounded Frankincense
Whose waves dance as they are blown into the land by sweet breezes.
You break your tall waves upon rocky beaches,
And you are calmed by races that are gentle and smooth.
You delight in ships and your waters feed wild beasts, mother Kypris,
Mother of dark clouds and of every spring round which nymphs swarm.
Hear me, O holy one. Kindly help, and blessed one, send a fair tall wind to ships.
Incense: Myrrh
And you exult in the beauty of your fifty daughters as they dance amid the waves.
O Nereus, god of great renown, foundation of the sea, end of the earth,
Beginning of all; you make Demeter's sacred throne tremble,
When you imprison the gusty winds driven to your gloomy depths.
But, O blessed one, ward off earthquakes, and send to the initiates peace,
Prosperity and gentle-handed health.
Incense:Aromatic Herbs
At the bottom of the sea you gambol and dance in the water.
Fifty maidens revel in the waves, maidens riding on the backs of Tritons,
Delighting in animal shapes and bodies nutured by the sea,
An din other dwellers of the Triton's billowy kingdom.
Your home is the water, and you leap and whirl round the waves,
Like glistening dolphins roving the roaring seas.
I call upon you to bring much prosperity to the initiates,
For you were first to know the holy rite of sacred Bacchos and of pure Persphone.
You and Kalliope and Apollon, the lord.
Incense: Storax
Who showed the beginnings of all nature, changing matter into a great variety of forms.
Honored by all, he is wise and knows what is now, what was before, and what will be.
He has all at his disposal and he is transformed far beyond the other immortals
Who dwell on snowy Olympo and fly through the air and over land and sea,
For nature was the first to place everything in Proteus.
But, father, attended by holy providence visit the mystic initiates,
and bring a good end to a life of industry and prosperity.
Incense: Incense and Grain
You bring all to fruition and you destroy all.
When the season is fair you are heavy with fruit and growing blossoms,
And, O muti-formed maiden, you are the seat of the immortal cosmos,
And in the pains of labor you bring forth fruits of all kinds.
Eternal, reverend, deep-bosomed, and blessed,
You delight in the sweet breath of grass, O goddess bedecked with flowers.
Yous is the joy of the rain, and round you the intricate realm stars revolves in endless, and awesome flow.
But, O blessed goddess, may you multiply the gladsome fruits,
And together with the beautiful seasons, grant me favor.
