Do you know, I rather fancy seeing what you do with the description of Queen Amata running away to the woods to try to hide her daughter, and bringing all the women to 'pretend' Bacchic fury with her. Virgil, Aeneid 7.385-405 - Latin here and a serviceable English translation here.
From a slightly more 'why the hell not' angle, you could have a go at Virgil's Eclogue Four, which is the one that the early Christian church decided was a prophecy of the coming of Christ - lots of nice 'lion laying down with lamb' stuff - Latin here and translation here, although you'd want to make a selection based on what passage grasps you more.
The other option which comes immediately to mind, and which might come to other people's minds as well but might work with your other experiences, is Horace's Carmen Saeculare -Latin and translation. Again, you'd probably need to cut it somewhere, but it is an actual hymn written to be performed at the Secular Games organised by the emperor Augustus in 17 BC (details over at Wikipedia are basic but accurate). So you could do sacred stuff with a sacred text if that felt like a thing.
Happy to go away and think some more, but those are the immediate thoughts which come to mind!
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From a slightly more 'why the hell not' angle, you could have a go at Virgil's Eclogue Four, which is the one that the early Christian church decided was a prophecy of the coming of Christ - lots of nice 'lion laying down with lamb' stuff - Latin here and translation here, although you'd want to make a selection based on what passage grasps you more.
The other option which comes immediately to mind, and which might come to other people's minds as well but might work with your other experiences, is Horace's Carmen Saeculare -Latin and translation. Again, you'd probably need to cut it somewhere, but it is an actual hymn written to be performed at the Secular Games organised by the emperor Augustus in 17 BC (details over at Wikipedia are basic but accurate). So you could do sacred stuff with a sacred text if that felt like a thing.
Happy to go away and think some more, but those are the immediate thoughts which come to mind!