Taylor - Eleusianian and Bacchic Mysteries.pdf - Platonic Philosophy

"Deum matrem.Cecropiam Minervam ;ilhnc fluctuantes CypriiPaphiam Venerem :Bacchic Mysteries. 115Hinc Autochthones AtticiCretes sagittif eriDictynnam Dianam ;Siculi trilingues StygiamProserpinam Eleusinii vetustam Beam;Cererem: Junonem alii, alii Bellonam, aliiHecaten, Rhamnusiam alii.Et qui nascentisdei Solis inchoantibus radiis illustrantur,^Ethiopes, Ariique, priscaque doctriiia pollentes^Egyptii caerimoniis me prorsus propriispercolentes appellant vero nomine reginamIsidem." That is, Behold, Lucius, movedwith thy supplications, I am present; I,who am Nature, the parent of things, mistress of allthe elements, initial progeny ofthe ages, the highest of the divinities, queenof departed spirits,the first of the celestials, of gods and goddesses the sole likenessof all :who rule by my nod the luminousheights of the heavens, the salubrious breezesof the sea, and the woful silences of the infernal regions, and whose divinity, in itselfbut one, is venerated by all the earth, inmany characters, various rites,and differentappellations. Hence the primitive Phry-