⚡️🌱 Zeus Velchanos, the greatest kouros ⛰️🐂
"Io! Greatest Kouros, hail, all-powerful son of Kronos, who have come to earth at the head of your daimones. Come to Dikte for the yearly cycle and take pleasure in our song. We thread it with harps and blend it with pipes and sing as we come to a stand at your well-fenced altar. For here the shield-bearing nurturers took you, a child immortal, from Rhea, and with noise of beating feet hid you away. . . . of fair dawn abounded every year, and men were restrained by Justice, and all living animals were - - - by wealth-loving Peace O lord, spring up in the wine-jars, spring up in the fleecy flocks, spring up in the crops of the fields and in the fruitful homes. Spring up in our cities, spring up in our sea-borne ships, spring up in our young citizens, . . . and spring up in noble order." --- Hymn to Dictaean Zeus
