Orphic Hymns

Orphic tradition

Hymn 12 | Primary edition: Greek source text

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13.1	Primary Ἀιθαλές, μακάρων τε θεῶν πάτερ ἠδὲ καὶ ἀνδρῶν, Permalink
13.2	Primary ποικιλόβουλ’, ἀμίαντε, μεγασθενές, ἄλκιμε Τιτάν· Permalink
13.3	Primary ὃς δαπανᾷς μὲν ἅπαντα καὶ αὔξεις ἔμπαλιν αὐτός· Permalink
13.4	Primary δεσμοὺς ἀρρήκτους ὃς ἔχεις κατ’ ἀπείρονα κόσμον, Permalink
13.5	Primary αἰῶνος Κρόνε παγγενέτορ, Κρόνε ποικιλόμυθε, 5 Permalink
13.6	Primary γαίης τε βλάστημα καὶ οὐρανοῦ ἀστερόεντος, Permalink
13.7	Primary γέννα, φυῆς, μείωσι, Ῥέας πόσι, σεμνὲ προμηθεῦ, Permalink
13.8	Primary ὃς ναίεις κατὰ πάντα μέρη κόσμοιο, γενάρχα, Permalink
13.9	Primary ἀγκυλομήτα, φέριστε· κλύων ἱκετηρίδα φωνὴν Permalink
13.10	Primary πέμποις εὐόλβου βιότου τέλος αἰὲν ἄμεμπτον. 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/Κρόνου :: pages 79,80 :: Abel hymn 13

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