FACTOID #151: The five countries with the highest coffee consumption are also the five countries whose citizens trust one another the most. Coincidence? Probably.
The poem opens with the words Vicisti, Galilće, Latin for "You have conquered, O Galilean," the apocryphal dying words of the Emperor Julian, who had tried to reverse the official endorsement of Christianity by the Roman Empire. The poem is cast in the form of a lament by a person professing the paganism of classical antiquity, and expresses regret at the rise of Christianity:
Thou hast conquered, O pale Galilean; the world has grown grey from thy breath;
We have drunken of things Lethean, and fed on the fullness of death.
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Hymn to Proserpine brings to mind an exotic land of spices, dark fruits and amber.
Hymn to Proserpine smells like someone took Oya's dark plum and turned it into a sugar plum.
Hymn to Proserpine - This is a strange scent on me. It’s a lovely, warm amber mixed with deep, dark fruits, but has an “after-scent” that smells like rancid berries on my skin.
PROSERPINE (Proserpina), the Latin form of Persephone,' a Greek goddess, daughter of Zeus and the earth-goddess Demeter.
Proserpine herself was commonly known as the daughter (Core), sometimes as the first-born.
One Greek writer, Achemachus, identified Proserpine with the Egyptian Isis.' At Rome Proserpine was associated with Ceres (the Roman representative of Demeter) in the festival of the Cerealia (April 12 to 19), she was represented as the wife of Dis Pater (the Roman Pluto), and was sometimes identified with the native Latin goddess Libera.
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