The Gods' Dilemma
Stop, O you haters of life,
Withhold your filth desecrating this world.
Your sins are numerous, your penance none,
Halt, for a dilemma the gods' face.
Who shall Aphrodite hear to?
Ostracized are they who called out to her.
Eros roams crying to this heresy,
Hera lies ruined in the expanse!
Cease your sacrifices to Circe, to Melione,
To Persephone, To Tartarus, To Hecate,
Do not conjure Lamia and Thanatos,
For the pain of Acheron now turns carmine!
Where is he who offered to me turtle doves and apples?
Where is he who offered hare and wings?
He sails the Underworld, from Kokytos, to Phlegethon,
To Acheron and to the forgetfulness of Lethe!
We did not grant him his love Eros,
For years we loved his worship, his sacrifice.
Now despised by her, he has travelled this land,
Consumed by its witchcraft, its animosity, he lies dilapidated!
To Persephone, To Tartarus, To Hecate,
Do not conjure Lamia and Thanatos,
For the pain of Acheron now turns carmine!
Where is he who offered to me turtle doves and apples?
Where is he who offered hare and wings?
He sails the Underworld, from Kokytos, to Phlegethon,
To Acheron and to the forgetfulness of Lethe!
We did not grant him his love Eros,
For years we loved his worship, his sacrifice.
Now despised by her, he has travelled this land,
Consumed by its witchcraft, its animosity, he lies dilapidated!
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