r power the winds and the sea and all
the earth below and the snowy seat of Olympus are complete; and to her,
when from the mountains she ascends the mighty heaven, Zeus himself, the
son of Cronos, gives place. In like manner the rest of the immortal
blessed ones reverence the dread goddess."

[Footnote 1: Rhea.]

Thus he spake, and his words were welcome to Jason's ear. And he arose
from his bed with joy and woke all his comrades hurriedly and told them
the prophecy of Mopsus the son of Ampycus. And quickly the younger men
drove oxen from their stalls and began to lead them to the mountain's
lofty summit. And they loosed the hawsers from the sacred rock and rowed
to the Thracian harbour; and the heroes climbed the mountain, leaving a
few of their comrades in the ship. And to them the Macrian heights and
all the coast of Thrace opposite appeared to view close at hand. And
there appeared the misty mouth of Bosporus and the Mysian hills; and on
the other side the stream of the river Aesepus and the city and Nepeian
plain of Adrasteia. Now there was a sturdy stump of vine that grew in
the forest, a tree exceeding old; this they cut down, to be the sacred
image of the mountain goddess; and Argus smoothed it skilfully, and they
set it upon that rugged hill beneath a canopy of lofty oaks, which of
all trees have their roots deepest. And near it they heaped an altar of
small stones, and wreathed their brows with oak leaves and paid heed to
sacrifice, invoking the mother of Dindymum, most venerable, dweller in
Phrygia, and Titias and Cyllenus, who alone of many are called
dispensers of doom and assessors of the Idaean mother,--the Idaean
Dactyls of Crete, whom once the nymph Anchiale, as she grasped with both
hands the land of Oaxus, bare in the Dictaean cave. And with many
prayers did Aeson's son beseech the goddess to turn aside the stormy
blasts as he poured libations on the blazing sacrifice; and at the same
time by command of Orpheus the youths trod a measure dancing in full
armour, and clashed with their swords on their shields, so that the
ill-omened cry might be lost in the air--the wail which the people were
still sending up in grief for their king. Hence from that time forward
the Phrygians propitiate Rhea with the wheel and the drum. And the
gracious goddess, I ween, inclined her heart to pious sacrifices; and
favourable signs appeared. The trees shed abundant fruit, and round
their feet the earth of its own accord