Orphic Hymns

Orphic tradition

Hymn 15 | Primary edition: Greek source text

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16.1	Primary Κυανέοις κόλποισιν ἐνημένη, ἠερόμορφε, Permalink
16.2	Primary Ἥρη παμβασίλεια, Διὸς σύλλεκτρε μάκαιρα, Permalink
16.3	Primary ψυχοτρόφους αὔρας θνητοῖς παρέχουσα προσηνεῖς, Permalink
16.4	Primary ὄμβρων μὲν μήτηρ, ἀνέμων τροφέ, παντογένεθλε· Permalink
16.5	Primary χωρὶς γὰρ σέθεν οὐδὲν ὅλως ζωῆς φύσιν ἔγνω· Permalink
16.6	Primary κοινωνεῖς γὰρ ἅπασι κεκραμένη ἠέρι σεμνῷ· Permalink
16.7	Primary πάντων γὰρ κρατέεις μούνη πάντεσσί τ’ ἀνάσσεις Permalink
16.8	Primary ἠερίοις ῥοίζοισι τινασσομένη κατὰ χεῦμα. Permalink
16.9	Primary ἀλλά, μάκαιρα θεά, πολυώνυμε, παμβασίλεια, Permalink
16.10	Primary ἔλθοις εὐμενέουσα καλῷ γήθοντι προσώπῳ. 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/Ήρας :: pages 81 :: Abel hymn 16

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