I call upon you
who have all forms and many names
double-horned goddess, Mene
whose form no one knows except him who made the entire world, IAO
the one who shaped you into the twenty-eight shapes of the world
so that you might complete every figure
and distribute breath to every animal and plant,
that it might flourish,
you who wax from obscurity into light
and wane from light into darkness
And the first companion of your name is silence,
the second a popping sound,
the third groaning,
the fourth hissing,
the fifth a cry of joy,
the sixth moaning,
the seventh barking,
the eighth bellowing,
the ninth neighing,
the tenth a musical sound,
the eleventh a sounding wind,
the twelfth a wind-creating sound,
the thirteenth a coercive sound,
the fourteenth a coercive emanation from perfection.
Ox, vulture, bull,
beetle, falcon, crab,
dog, wolf, serpent, horse,
she-goat, asp, goat, she-goat,
baboon, cat, lion,
leopard, fieldmouse, deer,
multiform, virgin, torch,
lightning, garland,
a herald's wand, child,
key.
I have said your names and signs of your name
so that you might hear me,
because I pray to you,
mistress of the whole world.
Hear me, you, the stable one,
the mighty one,
APHEIBOÊÔ MINTÊR OCHAÔ
PIZEPHYDÔR CHANTHAR CHADÊROZO
MOCHCTHION EOTNEU PHERZON
AINDÊS LACHABOÔ PITTÔ
RIPHTHAMER ZMOMOCHÔLEIE TIÊDRANTEIA
OISOZOCHABÊDÔPHRA
PGM VII. 756-94
Tr. W.C. Grese