Most of the following hymns are from the Greek Magical Papyri, which can be hard for people without an academic background to use. I’ve provided a selection of invocations for your convenience to save you trouble though not all of the hymns in this post are from the PGM.

Hecate

“I come, a virgin of varied forms, wandering through the heavens, bull-faced, three-headed, ruthless, with golden arrows; chaste Phoebe bringing light to mortals, Eileithyia; bearing the three synthemata (sacred signs) of a triple nature. In the Aether I appear in fiery forms and in the air I sit in a silver chariot.”

-Chaldean Oracles

“Come, giant Hekate, Dionne’s guard, / O Persia, Baubo Phronue, dart-shooter, unconquered Lydian, the one untamed, sired nobly, torch-bearing, guide, who bends down proud necks, Kore, hear, you who’ve parted / gates of steel unbreakable. o Artemis, who, too, were once protectress, mighty one, mistress, who burst forth from the earth, dog-leader, all-tamer, crossroad goddess, triple-headed, bringer of light, august / virgin, I call you fawn-slayer, crafty, o infernal one, and many formed. Come, Hekate, goddess of three ways, who with your fire-breathing phantoms have been allotted dreaded roads and harsh/ enchantments. Hekate I call you with those who have died without a wife and children, hissing wildly, yearning in their hearts “(but others say, “with forms of winds”)”

-Greek magical Papyri

“You, o Hekate, of many names, o Virgin, Kore, Goddess, come, I ask, O guard and shelter of the threshing floor, Persephone, O triple-headed goddess, who walk on fire, cow-eyed BOUORPHORBÊ PANPHORBA PHORBARA AKTIÔPHI ERESCHIGAL / NEBOUTOSOUALÊTH beside the doors, PYPYLÊDEDEZÔ and gate-breaker; Come Hekate of fiery counsel, I call you to my sacred chants. MASKELLI MASKELLÔ PHNOUKENTABAÔTH OREOBAZAGRA who burst forth from the earth, / earth mare, OREOPÊGANYX MORMORON TOKOUMBAI”

-Greek Magical Papyri

“THENÔB TITHELÊB ÊNÔR TENTHÊNÔR. / Many-named One, KYZALEOUSA PAZAOUS; wherefore, KOLLIDÊCHMA and SAB set her soul ablaze with unresting fire. Both ÔRIÔN and MICHAÊL who sits on high: you hold the seven waters / and the earth, keeping in check the one they call the great serpent, AKROKODÊRE MOUISRÔ CHARCHAR ADÔNAI ZEUS DÊ DAMNAMENEUS KYNOBIOU EZAGRA” (add the usual). “IÔ, all-powerful goddess/ and IÔ all-guarding one; IÔ all-sustaining One, ZÊLACHNA: and SAAD SABIÔTHE NOUMILLION NATHOMEINA, always KEINÊTH, stalwart THÊSEUS ONYX, prudent DAMNAMENEUS, / avenging goddess, strong goddess, rite of ghosts, Persia SEBARA AKRA. Haste quickly. ”

-Greek Magical Papyri

Zeus

“I call upon you who created Earth and bones and all flesh and all spirit and who established the sea and suspended the heavens, who separated the light from the darkness, the Supreme Intelligence who lawfully administrates all things.

Eternal Eye, Dæmon of dæmons, god of gods, the lord of the spirits, the invariable AION IAO OYEI, hear my voice.

I call upon you, master of the gods, high thundering Zeus, sovereign Zeus, ADONAI, lord IAO OYEE;

I am he who calls upon you, great god, in Syrian: ZAALAERIPHPHOU, and you must not Ignore my voice, in Hebrew: ABLANATHANALBA ABRASILOA;

For I am SILTHACHOOUCH LAILAM BLASALOTH

IAO IEO BEBOUTH SABIOTH ARBOTH

ARBATHIAO IAOTH SABOATH PA TOURE

ZAGOURE BAROUCH ADONAI ELOAI ABRAAM

BARBARAUO NAUSIPH,

High-minded one, immortal, who possesses the crown of the whole world,

SIEPE SAKTIETE

BIOU BIOU SPHE SPHE

NOUSI NOUSI SIETHO SIETHO

CHTHETHONI RIGCH

EIA E EOA AOE IAO

ASIAL SARAPI OLSO

ETHMOURESINI SEM LAU LOU LOURIGCH.”

-Greek Magical Papyri

Hermes

“Hermes, lord of the world, who’re in the heart,

O Circle of Selene, spherical

And square, the founder of the words of speech,

With golden sandals, turning airy course

Beneath earth’s depth, who hold the spirit’s reins,

The sun’s and who with lamps of gods immortal

Give joy to those beneath earth’s depts, to mortals

Who’ve finished life. The Moirai’s fatal thread

And Dream divine you’re said to be, who send

Forth Oracles by day and night, you cure

Pains of all mortals with your healing cares.

Hither, O blessed one, O mighty son

Of the goddess who brings full mental powers,

By your own form and gracious mind. And to

Me, NN, a pious man, reveal a sign

And send him your true skill of prophecy.

OIOSENMIGADON ORTHO BAUBO NIOERE

KODERETH DOSERE SYRE SUROE

SANKISTE DODEKAISTE AKROUROBORE

KODERE RINOTON KOUMETANA

ROUBITHA NOUMILA PERPHEROU AROUORER AROUER”

-Greek magical Papyri

Selene

“hail! SAX, AMUN, SAX, ABRAXAS;

For thou art the Moon, the chief of the stars,

He that did form them.

Listen to the things that I have said,

Follow the words of my mouth,

Reveal thyself to me,

THAN, THANA, THANATHA, THEI

This is my correct name.”

-Greek magical Papyri

Primeval Eros/Phanes/Protogonus

These invocations are to the primordial god who isn’t the same deity as Olympian Eros, the son of Aphrodite.

“I call upon you, author of all creation, who spread your own wings

over the whole world, you, the unapproachable and unmeasurable who

breathe into every soul life-giving reasoning, who fitted all things

together by your power, firstborn, founder of the universe,

golden-winged, whose light is darkness, who shroud reasonable thoughts

and breathe forth dark frenzy, clandestine one who secretly inhabit

every soul.

You engender an unseen fire as you carry off every living thing

without growing weary of torturing it, rather having with pleasure

delighted in pain from the time when the world came into being. You

also come and bring pain, who are sometimes reasonable, sometimes

irrational, because of whom men dare beyond what is fitting and take

refuge in your light which is darkness.

Most headstrong, lawless, implacable, inexorable, invisible, bodiless,

generator of frenzy, archer, torch-carrier, master of all living

sensation and of everything clandestine, dispenser of forgetfulness,

creator of silence, through whom the light and to whom the light

travels, infantile when you have been engendered within the heart,

wisest when you have succeeded; I call upon you, unmoved by prayer, by

your great name

[F]irst-shining, night-shining, night rejoicing, night-engendering,

witness, you in the depth, you in the sea, clandestine and wisest.

Turn the ‘soul’ of her to me, so that she may love me, so that she may

feel passion for me, so that she may give me what is in her power. Let

her say to me what is in her soul because I have called upon your

great name.”

-Grek magical papyri

To multiple gods

“I call upon the ILAOUCH who has begotten Himeros, the Lovely Horai and You Graces; I also call upon the Zeus-sprung Physis [Nature] of All Things, two-formed, indivisible, straight, foam-beautiful Aphrodite. Reveal to me Your Lovely Light and Your Lovely Face, O Mistress ILAOUCH. I conjure You, Giver of Fire, by ELGINAL, and by the Great Names OBRIE’TYCH KERDYNOUCHILE’PSIN NIOU NAUNIN IOUTHOU THRIGX TATIOUTH GERTIATH GERGERIS GERGERIE’ THEITHI. I also ask You by the All Wonderful Names, OISIA EI EI AO’ E’Y AAO’ IO’IAIAIO’ SO’THOU BERBROI AKTEROBORE GERIE’ IE’OYA; bring me Light and Your Lovely Face, You shining with Fire, bearing Fire all around, stirring the Land from afar, IO’ IO’ PHTHAIE’ THOUTHOI PHAEPHI. Do it!”

-Greek Magical Papyri