Hades - God of the Dead & Underworld Incense Sticks
Incense of Spirit and Shades of the dead.(15 to a pack), Hades, his very name meaning 'the unseen one'. Orphic Hymn 18 to Pluton (trans. Taylor) (Greek hymns C3rd B.C. to 2nd A.D.) :
"To Plouton [Haides]. Plouton, magnanimous, whose realms
profound are fixed beneath the firm and solid ground, in the Tartarean
plains remote from sight, and wrapt for ever in the depths of night.
Zeus Khthonios (of the Underworld), thy sacred ear incline, and pleased
accept these sacred rites divine. Earth’s keys to thee, illustrious
king, belong, its secret gates unlocking, deep and strong. ‘Tis thine
abundant annual fruits to bear, for needy mortals are thy constant care.
To thee, great king, all sovereign earth assigned, the seat of gods and
basis of mankind. Thy throne is fixed in Haides’ dismal plains,
distant, unknown to the rest, where darkness reigns; where, destitute of
breath, pale spectres dwell, in endless, dire, inexorable hell; and in
dread Akheron, whose depths obscure, earth’s stable roots eternally
secure. O mighty Daimon, whose decision dread, the future fate
determines of the dead, with Demeter’s girl [Persephone] captive,
through grassy plains, drawn in a four-yoked car with loosened reins,
rapt over the deep, impelled by love, you flew till Eleusinia’s city
rose to view: there, in a wondrous cave obscure and deep, the sacred
maid secure from search you keep, the cave of Atthis, whose wide gates
display an entrance to the kingdoms void of day. Of works unseen and
seen thy power alone to be the great dispending source is known.
All-ruling, holy God, with glory bright, thee sacred poets and their
hymns delight, propitious to thy mystics’ works incline, rejoicing come,
for holy rites are thine."

