{"id":6463,"date":"2010-03-13T23:13:43","date_gmt":"2010-03-14T06:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=6463"},"modified":"2010-03-25T13:41:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-25T20:41:00","slug":"hymn-to-mother-of-the-gods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=6463","title":{"rendered":"Hymn to Mother of the Gods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>This is from a translation of the Homeric hymns that I just got today:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Sing to me, Muse, clear-voiced daughter of great Zeus,<br \/>\nabout the Mother of all gods and all people.<br \/>\nClash of castanets and kettledrums, the trill of reed pipes<br \/>\nplease her, as do the howl of wolves, roar of fierce lions,<br \/>\nechoing mountains and wooded valleys.<br \/>\nYou and all the goddesses, rejoice in my song.<\/p>\n<p><em>Now that&#8217;s what I call a hymn: vivid images and sounds, excitement, and the sense that you&#8217;re invoking something that&#8217;s really out of human control.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Good translation, too. Trans. Diane J. Raynor, Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 2004.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is from a translation of the Homeric hymns that I just got today: Sing to me, Muse, clear-voiced daughter of great Zeus, about the Mother of all gods and all people. Clash of castanets and kettledrums, the trill of reed pipes please her, as do the howl of wolves, roar of fierce lions, echoing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[497,496,498],"class_list":["post-6463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meditation","tag-ancient-greek-divinities","tag-gaia","tag-homer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6463"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6525,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6463\/revisions\/6525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}