Orphic Hymns

Orphic tradition

Hymn 14 | Primary edition: Greek source text

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15.1	Primary Ζεῦ πολυτίμητε, Ζεῦ ἄφθιτε, τήνδε τοι ἡμεῖς, Permalink
15.2	Primary μαρτυρίην τιθέμεσθα λυτήριον ἠδὲ πρόσευξιν. Permalink
15.3	Primary ὦ βασιλεῦ, διὰ σὴν κεφαλὴν ἐφάνη τάδε ῥεῖα, Permalink
15.4	Primary γαῖα θεὰ μήτηρ ὀρέων θ’ ὑψηχέες ὄχθοι, Permalink
15.5	Primary καὶ πόντος καὶ πάνθ’, ὁπόσ’ οὐρανὸς ἐντὸς ἑέργει· Permalink
15.6	Primary Ζεῦ Κρόνιε, σκηπτοῦχε, καταιβάτα, ὀμβριμόθυμε, Permalink
15.7	Primary παντογένεθλ’, ἀρχὴ πάντων, πάντων τε τελευτή, Permalink
15.8	Primary σεισίχθων, αὐξητά, καθάρσιε, παντοτινάκτα, Permalink
15.9	Primary ἀστραπαῖε, βρονταῖε, κεραύνιε, φυτάλιε Ζεῦ· Permalink
15.10	Primary κλῦθί μευ, αἰολόμορφε, δίδου δ’ ὑγίειαν ἀμεμφῆ Permalink
15.11	Primary εἰρήνην τε θεὰν καὶ πλούτου δόξαν 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/Διός :: pages 80,81 :: Abel hymn 15

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