Hymn to Demeter

Daughter to the Great Titans Kronos and Rhea,

Earth Goddess par excellence,

She who brings forth the fruits of the earth

And the life sustaining grains of the land,

We Pray!

Goddess who forsake the throne and riches offered to Her by Her might brother Zeus,

Father of all the Gods,

So that She could live among men upon the earth,

We Pray!

She who taught man the arts of seed and plow

To end the nomadic lives they lead,

Who became the Goddess of planned society.

We Pray!

Great Beloved Goddess Demeter, Mother of Persephone,

We come to honor and praise you!

In Your sadness from the lose of you daughter,

The world suffered bitter winter and death, finding no relief or joy,

Teaching men that all things end.

With the return of Your Daughter, Persephone,

You allowed life to return to the land sending away the cold winter of death.

With this You taught man that life once gone returns anew to the world,

That the eternal soul of all things flows with the cycle of the land.

Demeter, Goddess of the Eleusinian Mysteries,

We come before You in honor of all Your teachings to man,

We come before You to ask that You burn away our impurities

As You once sought to do with Demophon.

Blessed Mysteries of life, death, and life again are yours,

Great Beloved Demeter.