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//- meta
	slug: "hymns/poseidon"
	lang: en
	title: "Orphic Hymn to Poseidon"
	pageCreated: "2026-04-19"

extends ../../../views/hymns/hymnsheet.pug

block navbar
	ul
		li.nav-arrow.nav-arrow-left: a(href="/hymns/hera") #[span.dingbat ☙] #[b(lang="grc") Ηρας] #[i To Hera]
		li.nav-current ΙΖʹ · XVII
		li.nav-arrow.nav-arrow-right: a(href="/hymns/plouton") #[i To Plouton] #[b(lang="grc") Εις Πλουτωνα] #[span.dingbat ❧]

block ancient-pic
	img(src="/hymns/thumbnails/poseidon-ancient.jpg" alt="Ancient mosaic of Poseidon")

block modern-pic
	img(src="/hymns/thumbnails/poseidon-modern.jpg" alt="Modern painting of Poseidon")

block greek
	h1 Ποσειδῶνος
	div.offering Θυμίαμα σμύρναν
	p.hymn-greek
		:format-hymn
			Κλῦθι, Ποσειδάον γαιήοχε, κυανοχαῖτα,
			ἵππιε, χαλκοτόρευτον ἔχων χείρεσσι τρίαιναν,
			ὃς ναίεις πόντοιο βαθυστέρνοιο θέμεθλα,
			ποντομέδων, ἁλίδουπε, βαρύκτυπος, ἐννοσίγαιε,
			κυμοθαλές, χαριτῶπα, τετράορον ἅρμα διώκων,
			εἰναλίοις ῥοίζοισι τινάσσων ἁλμυρὸν ὕδωρ,
			ὃς τριτάτης ἔλαχες μοίρης βαθὺ χεῦμα θαλάσσης,
			κύμασι τερπόμενος, θηρσίν θ’ ἅμα, πότνιε Δαῖμον·
			ἕδρανα γῆς σῴζοις καὶ νηῶν εὔδρομον ὁρμήν,
			εἰρήνην, ὑγίειαν ἄγων, ἠδ’ ὄλβον ἀμεμφῆ.

block english
	h1 To Poſeidon
	div.offering The fumigation from myrrh
	p.hymn-english Hear, #[span.theonym(greek="Poseidon") Neptune], ruler of the sea profound,#[br]whose liquid grasp begirts the solid ground;#[br]who, at the bottom of the stormy main,#[br]dark and deep-bosom’d, hold’st Thy wat’ry reign;#[br]Thy awful hand the brazen trident bears,#[br]and ocean’s utmost bound, Thy will reveres:#[br]Thee i invoke, whose steeds the foam divide,#[br]from whose dark locks the briny waters glide;#[br]whose voice loud founding thro’ the roaring deep,#[br]drives all its billows, in a raging heap;#[br]when fiercely riding thro’ the boiling sea,#[br]Thy hoarse command the trembling waves obey.#[br]Earth-shaking, dark-hair’d God, the liquid plains#[br](the third division) Fate to Thee ordains,#[br]’tis Thine, cærulian Dæmon, to survey#[br]well pleas’d the monsters of the ocean play,#[br]confirm earth’s basis, and with prosp’rous gales#[br]waft ships along, and swell the spacious sails;#[br]add gentle Peace, and fair-hair’d Health beside,#[br]and pour abundance in a blameless tide.