Mise
Mise ( Greek Μίση , also Μισατίς Misatis or Μισα Misa ) was a deity from the environment of Demeter - Cybele and the Mysteries of Eleusis , especially from their reception by the Orphics . According to the Orphic hymns , she was male-female and was worshiped in Eleusis , Phrygia , with Aphrodite in Cyprus and with Isis in Egypt :
- Mises smoke offering
- (with Styrax )
- Statute-giver, prize, rod-swinging, you, Dionysus ,
- Much wooed race, Much named you of Eubuleus ,
- Mise, and you, most holy and noble, ineffable princess;
- Male and female form, two-body dissolver of Iakchos !
- Whether your heart rejoices in Eleusi's fragrant temple,
- Whether you have orgies with your mother in Phrygia,
- Or you Kypros pleased with the schönumkränzten Kythere ,
- Or you jump up joyfully in holy wheat fields,
- Together with the divine mother, the dark-shrouded Isis,
- On Aegyptos flowing stream, with the serving nurses:
- Graciously close, and crown the work with a noble price!
Her cult is documented in writing in the Demeter shrine in Pergamon and in Samurlu .
At Asklepiades von Tragilos she appears as the daughter of Dysaules and Baubo .
literature
- Fritz Graf : Eleusis and the Orphic poetry of Athens in pre-Hellenistic times. de Gruyter, Berlin 1974, p. 159f.
- Theodor Heinze: Mise. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 8, Metzler, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-476-01478-9 , column 259 f.
- Karl Tümpel: Mise . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 2.2, Leipzig 1897, Col. 3023-3026 ( digitized version ).
Individual evidence
- ^ Orphic Hymn 42. Translation by David Karl Philipp Dietsch
- ↑ Valerius Harpokration Lexicon on the ten speakers sv Δυσαύλης based on the reading by Karl Müller Fragmenta historicorum graecorum vol. 2, p. 339