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Orphic Hymns

Orphic tradition

Hymn 17 | Primary edition: Greek source text

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18.1

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Ὦ τὸν ὑποχθόνιον ναίων δόμον, ὀβριμόθυμε,

18.2

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Ταρτάριον λειμῶνα βαθύσκιον ἠδὲ λιπαυγῆ,

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Ζεῦ χθόνιε, σκηπτοῦχε, τάδ’ ἱερὰ δέξο προθύμως·

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Πλούτων, ὃς κατέχεις γαίης κληῖδας ἁπάσης,

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πλουτοδοτῶν γενεὴν βροτέην καρποῖς ἐνιαυτῶν·

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ὃς τριτάτης μοίρης ἔλαχες χθόνα παμβασίλειαν,

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ἕδρανον ἀθανάτων, θνητῶν στήριγμα κραταιόν·

18.8

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ὃς θρόνον ἐστήριξας ὑπὸ ζοφοειδέα χῶρον,

18.9

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τηλέπορον τ’, ἀκάμαντα, λιπόπνοον, ἄκριτον ᾅδην,

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κυάνεόν τ’ Ἀχέρονθ’, ὃς ἔχει ῥιζώματα γαίης·

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ὃς κρατέεις θνητῶν θανάτου χάριν, ὦ πολυδέγμον·

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Εὔβουλ’, ἁγνοπόλου Δημήτερος ὅς ποτε παῖδα

18.13

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νυμφεύσας λειμῶνος ἀποσπαδίην διὰ πόντου

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τετρώροις ἵπποισιν ὑπ’ Ἀτθίδος ἤγαγες ἄντρον

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δήμου Ἐλευσῖνος, τόθι περ πύλαι εἴσ’ Ἀίδαο.

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μοῦνος ἔφυς ἀφανῶν ἔργων φανερῶν τε βραβευτής,

18.17

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ἔνθεε, παντοκράτωρ, ἱερώτατος, ἀγλαότιμε,

18.18

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σεμνοῖς μυστιπόλοις χαίρων ὁσίοις τε σεβασμοῖς·

18.19

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ἵλαον ἀγκαλέω σε μολεῖν κεχαρηότα μύσταις.

Text notes and edition context

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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/Εις Πλούτωνα :: pages 82,83 :: Abel hymn 18

Primary source: Greek ritual source texts | Wikisource / Internet Archive.

Canonical pilot note: this original-language edition is currently imported for Hymn 17 only and carries line-level CTS URNs in the runtime corpus.