Beloved by Artemis - Bleeding Gods

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