The chief duty of a king is to perform the rites of praise and placation as they should be performed, to observe care and ceremony and so understand and make known the will of the powers that are greater than we are. “We who are called royal are those who speak for our people to the powers of the earth and sky, as those powers transmit their will through us to the people. They filled my eyes with tears and my heart with inexpressible joy.” It was the Venus I had prayed to, it was my prayer, though I had no such words. The wide levels of the sea smile at her, and all the quiet sky shines and streams with light." Under the sliding star signs she fills the ship-laden sea and the fruitful earth with her being through her the generations are conceived and rise up to see the sun from her the storm clouds flee to her the earth, the skillful maker, offers flowers. Delight of men and gods, he called her, dear nurturer. They call her Aphrodite.There was a great poet who praised her in Latin. "But Venus also became more.With the help of the Greeks. Perhaps having grown up in the country, among pagans like me, helped him understand my bewilderment. I said cautiously, "Venus is the power that we invoke in spring, in the garden, when things begin growing.
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