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Prayer to Mercurius

Mercurius
Mercurius Cyllenius, principle author of all sacred knowledge, at times within Heaven, at other times travelling within the starry signs to open the celestial paths to the highest parts above and the lowest paths beneath the earth. You stitch together the stars in the empty void of space into constellations, name them and determine their course; may it have been for us to reverently use the greater powers of the universe that You make.
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AuthorManilius
WorkAstronomicon
Section1.30ff
PeriodAugustan
Classificatio · Taxonomy
Cultureroman
Formliterary
DeitiesMercurius
Functionsinvocation · praise
Spherearts