People ask me where the Gods have gone, thinking perhaps that the ancients saw Zeus as just a man in the sky, and because we see no sky-man there now (or ever), that Zeus is “gone”.
But He is always there, and has always been: in the fertile rain, in the mighty sound of thunder, in the very order that holds the sky aloft the wet earth.
Ὦ Ζεῦ, πάτερ Ζεῦ, σὸν μὲν οὐρανοῦ κράτος, σὺ δ᾿ ἔργ᾿ ἐπ᾿ ἀνθρώπων ὁρᾷς, λεωργὰ καὶ θεμιστά, σοὶ δὲ θηρίων, ὕβρις τε καὶ δίκη μέλει.
Hail Father Sky, Founder of justice in heaven and all beneath it!
O King in the highest heavens enthroned in glory
O Father of all, praise and thanks to You and Your mighty name.
Aba Amang Langit, Tagapagtaguyod ng katarungan mula langit hanggang kailaliman!
O Hari ng kaitaas-taasang naluluklok sa kaluwalhatian
Ama ng sansinukuban, papurihan Ka at pasalamatan at ang Iyong magiting na pangalan.
We see the Theoi differently than the ancients because our culture does not lend itself to the immanence the ancients were able to feel. It is a task of ours to rediscover it.
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