Orphic Hymns

Orphic tradition

Hymn 13 | Primary edition: Greek source text

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14.1	Primary Πότνια Ῥέα, θύγατερ πολυμόρφου Πρωτογόνοιο, Permalink
14.2	Primary ᾗ λῖς ταυροφόνος ἱερότροχον ἅρμα τιταίνει, Permalink
14.3	Primary τυμπανόδουπε, φιλοιστρομανές, χαλκόκροτε κούρη, Permalink
14.4	Primary μῆτερ Ζηνὸς ἄνακτος Ὀλυμπίου, αἰγιόχοιο, Permalink
14.5	Primary πάντιμ’, ἀγλαόμορφε, Κρόνου σύλλεκτρε μάκαιρα· Permalink
14.6	Primary οὔρεσιν ἣ χαίρεις θνητῶν τ’ ὀλολύγμασι φρικτοῖς, Permalink
14.7	Primary παμβασίλεια Ῥέα, πολεμόκλονος, ὀμβριμόθυμε, Permalink
14.8	Primary ψευδομένη σώτειρα, λυτηριάς, ἀρχιγένεθλε· Permalink
14.9	Primary μήτηρ μέν τε θεῶν ἠδὲ θνητῶν ἀνθρώπων· Permalink
14.10	Primary ἐκ σοῦ γὰρ καὶ γαῖα καὶ οὐρανὸς εὐρὺς ὕπερθε Permalink
14.11	Primary καὶ πόντος πνοαί τε· φιλόδρομος, ἠερόμορφε· Permalink
14.12	Primary ἐλθέ, μάκαιρα θεά, σωτήριος εὔφρονι βουλῇ Permalink
14.13	Primary εἰρήνην κατάγουσα σὺν εὐόλβοις κτεάτεσσι, Permalink
14.14	Primary λύματα καὶ κῆρας πέμπουσ’ ἐπὶ τέρματα γαίης. Permalink

Text notes and edition context

Work

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/Ρέας :: pages 80 :: Abel hymn 14

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