Orphic Hymns

Orphic tradition

Hymn 11 | Primary edition: Greek source text

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12.1	Primary Ἥρακλες ὀβριμόθυμε, μεγασθενές, ἄλκιμε Τιτάν, Permalink
12.2	Primary καρτερόχειρ, ἀδάμαστε, βρύων ἄθλοισι κραταιοῖς, Permalink
12.3	Primary αἰολόμορφε, χρόνου πάτερ, ἀίδιός τε εὔφρον, Permalink
12.4	Primary ἄρρητ’, ἀγριόθυμε, πολύλλιτε, παντοδυνάστα, Permalink
12.5	Primary παγκρατὲς ἦτορ ἔχων, κάρτος μέγα, τοξότα, μάντι, 5 Permalink
12.6	Primary παμφάγε, παγγενέτωρ, πανυπέρτατε, πᾶσιν ἀρωγέ, Permalink
12.7	Primary ὃς θνητοῖς κατέπαυσας ἀνήμερα φῦλα διώξας, Permalink
12.8	Primary εἰρήνην ποθέων κουροτρόφον, ἀγλαότιμον, Permalink
12.9	Primary αὐτοφυής, ἀκάμας, γαίης βλάστημα φέριστον, Permalink
12.10	Primary πρωτογόνοις στράψας βολίσιν, μεγαλώνυμε δαῖμον, Permalink
12.11	Primary ὃς περὶ κρατὶ φορεῖς ἠῶ καὶ νύκτα μέλαιναν, Permalink
12.12	Primary δώδεκ’ ἀπ’ ἀντολιῶν ἄχρι δυσμῶν ἆθλα διέρπων, Permalink
12.13	Primary ἀθάνατος, πολύπειρος, ἀπείριτος, ἀστυφέλικτος· Permalink
12.14	Primary ἐλθέ, μάκαρ, νούσων θελκτήρια πάντα κομίζων, Permalink
12.15	Primary ἐξέλασον δὲ κακὰς ἄτας κλάδον ἐν χερὶ πάλλων, Permalink
12.16	Primary πτηνοῖς τ’ ἰοβόλοις κῆρας χαλεπὰς ἀπόπεμπε. Permalink

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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/Ηρακλέους :: pages 79 :: Abel hymn 12

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