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Orphic Hymns

Orphic tradition

Hymn 10 | Primary edition: Greek source text

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11.1

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Πᾶνα καλῶ κρατερόν, νόμιον, κόσμοιο τὸ σύμπαν,

11.2

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οὐρανὸν ἠδὲ θάλασσαν ἰδὲ χθόνα παμβασίλειαν

11.3

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καὶ πῦρ ἀθάνατον· τάδε γὰρ μέλε’ ἐστὶ τὰ Πανός,

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ἐλθέ, μάκαρ, σκιρτητά, περίδρομε, σύνθρονος Ὥραις,

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αἰγομελές, βακχευτά, φιλένθεος, ἀντροδίαιτε,

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ἁρμονίην κόσμοιο κρέκων φιλοπαίγμονι μολπῇ,

11.7

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φαντασιῶν ἐπαρωγέ, φόβων ἔκπαγλε βροτείων,

11.8

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αἰγονόμοις χαίρων ἀνὰ πίδακας ἠδέ τε βούταις,

11.9

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εὔσκοπε, θηρητήρ, Ἠχοῦς φίλε, σύγχορε νυμφῶν,

11.10

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παντοφυές, γενέτορ πάντων, πολυώνυμε δαῖμον,

11.11

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κοσμοκράτωρ, αὐξητά, φαεσφόρε, κάρπιμε Παιάν,

11.12

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ἀντροχαρές, βαρύμηνις, ἀληθὴς Ζεὺς ὁ κεράστης.

11.13

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σοὶ γὰρ ἀπειρέσιον γαίης πέδον ἐστήρικται,

11.14

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εἴκει δ’ ἀκαμάτου πόντου τὸ βαθύρροον ὕδωρ

11.15

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Ὠκεανός τε πέριξ ἐν ὕδασι γαῖαν ἑλίσσων,

11.16

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ἠέριόν τε μέρισμα τροφῆς, ζωοῖσιν ἔναυσμα,

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καὶ κορυφῆς ἐφύπερθεν ἐλαφροτάτου πυρὸς ὄμμα.

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βαίνει γὰρ τάδε ῥεῖα πολύκριτα σῇσιν ἐφετμαῖς·

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ἀλλάσσεις δὲ φύσεις πάντων ταῖς σῇσι προνοίαις

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βόσκων ἀνθρώπων γενεὴν κατ’ ἀπείρονα κόσμον.

11.21

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ἀλλά, μάκαρ, βακχευτά, φιλένθεε, βαῖν’ ἐπὶ λοιβαῖς

11.22

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εὐιέροις, ἀγαθὴν δ’ ὄπασον βιότοιο τελευτὴν

11.23

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Πανικὸν ἐκπέμπων οἶστρον ἐπὶ τέρματα γαίης.

Text notes and edition context

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Orphic Hymns

The Orphic Hymns compress cosmology, prayer, ritual address, and divine epithets into compact devotional poems especially suited to meditative and oracle-like reading; the corpus now also carries an Abel-based Greek witness aligned as honestly as possible against the existing Taylor English sequence.

Hymns | Original language: Ancient Greek

Late Hellenistic to early Imperial Greek religious poetry, often dated between the 2nd century BCE and 2nd century CE

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Primary Edition

Greek source text

Ancient Greek | Verse

Greek Abel 1885 witness via Wikisource page transcription

This edition preserves the Greek text of the Orphic Hymns from the Abel-based Greek Wikisource transcription, pinned by revision id and NFC-normalized for corpus use.

The Greek layer is aligned to the existing Taylor English sequence for compare reading, so the Musaeus proem and Abel hymn 1 (Hecate) remain outside the current main corpus book run.

Source family: Greek ritual source texts

Wikisource / Internet Archive | Public-domain source texts

Greek hymn and oracle witnesses staged where page-level provenance is clean enough to support direct reading.

Pinned source commit: elwikisource

Source path: Ορφικοί ύμνοι/Πανός :: pages 78,79 :: Abel hymn 11

Primary source: Greek ritual source texts | Wikisource / Internet Archive.

Canonical pilot note: this original-language edition is currently imported for Hymn 10 only and carries line-level CTS URNs in the runtime corpus.