Beloved Artemis Lyrics

Stag-like golden antlers
With hooves of bronze
Sacred to Artemis
This Ceryneian doe

The anger of Hera and king Eurystheus
For killing the Lion and Hydra
This third task for me will be full of doom
Thou shall not kill this beast
Nor shall thou skin
Thou will feel the suffering when it's dead

Stag-like golden antlers
With hooves of bronze
Sacred to Artemis
This Ceryneian doe

After my awakening from the travels way up north
I spotted this heavenly creature with antlers
Wich gleamed in the sun
Afraid of Artemis' anger
I will not slay
Barefootedly I'll chase it down
On the mountain slopes of Ceryneia

And for the length of thirteen full moons
I barefootedly chased this hind
We ran from north to south, from east to west
Troughout thrace, istria
And the land beyond the north wind
It was not to be captured during sleep
Not to be caught with mesh
It could outrun my lightspeeding arrows
This beatiful, beloved and sacred creature of Artemis

Artemis
Forgive me from this desecration
It's part of my penance
My forever guilt

On the last full moon I passed
The gates of Artemis' temple
The Ceryneian Hind laid down
Before the shrine

Stag-like golden antlers
With hooves of bronze
The Hind returned to the goddess
As it flees from the king