El Consejo delos Dioses Script (11 HUMSS 2 AUPC)

English Version (Own Translation)

FIRST SCENE

The gods and goddesses and the eight muses mentioned. The muse Terpsíchore arrives first, and then the nymphs, naiads and ondinas dancing and spreading flowers to the sound of Phoebus and Erato's lyre and Euterpe's flute. After that, all the people are placed on both sides of the stage.

SECOND SCENE
(Says and Mercury.)

(Mercury arrives and, turning to the head of the Phrygian cap, speaks :)

MERCURY:

I have already fulfilled your commands, sovereign Father; Neptune and his court can not come, because they fear losing the empire of the seas, because of the current courage of men; Vulcan has not yet finished the rays that you entrusted him to arm Olympus and is concluding them;

As for Pluto ...

JUPITER:

(interrupting Mercury.)

Enough! I dont need them neither. Hebe, and you, Ganymede, distribute the nectar so that the immortals could drink.

(While Hebe and Ganymede fill their role, Bacchus arrives and Silenus, this one on foot and that one mounted on a donkey with the tirso in the hand and green branches at the temples, singing :)

«The one who wants to live
•And have fun,

Leave Minerva:
My vineyards take care ...

MINERVA:
(Loudly.)

Silence! Do not you see that the mighty Jupiter has to speak?

SILENUS:

And what? Has the winner of the 'Titans' been angry? The gods take the nectar: ​​therefore, anyone can express their joy in the way they please; but I see that my disciple has offended you and you take it as a pretext.

MOMUS:
(With a sarcastic voice;)

Defend me, Silenus, because they do not say that your disciples are impertinent.

MINERVA:

(She tried to reply, but Jupiter contient it with a gesture and Minerva manifested her contempt with such a dashing smile, altering the delicate severity of her luscious lips.)

{After the gods taking the drinks from immortals ,Jupiter begins to speak.)

JUPITER:
Such an event I wish to celebrate with the pomp of the immortals, today that the Earth, following its eternal career, has returned to occupy the same point in its orbit, where it turned then. So, that I, the Sovereign of the gods, want the festival to begin with a literary contest. I have a superb warrior horn, a lyre and a laurel wreath carefully made: the horn is made of a metal, which alone Vulcan knows, .more precious than gold and silver; the lyre, like that of Apollo, is of gold and mother-of-pearl ", also worked by the same Vulcan, but its ropes, the work of the Muses, know no rivals, and the crown, woven by the Graces, of the best laurel that grows in My immortal gardens, shine more than all the kings of the Earth, all three are equally valuable, and whoever has cultivated the letters and the virtues better will be the owner of such magnificent jewels. the mortal that you judge worthy of deserving.

JUNO:

{He gets up in an arrogant and haughty attitude.)

Jupiter, let me speak the first, as your wife and mother of the most powerful gods. None better than me can present you the mortal more perfect than the divine Homer. And to the truth, who will dare to dispute the supremacy, just as no work can compete with his Iliad, courageous and daring like him.'Who, like him, referred to the more sublime carvings in more beautiful verses? He sang to divinity, to knowledge, to virtue, courage, heroism and misfortune, going through all the tones of his lyre. Be it the winner; for I believe, as the entire Olympus believes, that no one has become more creditor of our sympathies.