Taylor - Eleusianian and Bacchic Mysteries.pdf - Platonic Philosophy

""116 Bacchic Mysteries.gians call me Pessinuntica, the mother ofthe gods the Attic;Autochthons, CecropianMinerva ;the wave-surrounded Cyprians,Paphian Venus ;Dictynnian Diana;the arrow-bearing Cretans,the three-tongued Sicilians, Stygian Proserpina ;and the inhabitants of Eleusis, the ancient goddess Ceres.Some, again, have invoked me as Juno, othersas Bellona, others as Hecate, and others asEhamiiusia : and those who are enlightenedby the emerging rays of the rising sun, the^Ethiopians, and Aryans, and likewise theEgyptians powerful in ancient learning, whoreverence my divinity with ceremonies perfectly proper, call me by my true appellationQueen Isis."And, again, in another place ofthe same book, he says of the moon :TeSuperi colunt, observant Inferi : tu rotasorbem, luminas Solem, regis mundum, calcasTartarum. Tibi respondent sidera, gaudentnumina, redeunt tempora, serviunt elementa,etc." That is, The supernal gods reverencethee, and those in the realms beneath attentively do homage to thy divinity. Thoudost make the universe revolve, illuminate