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Orphic Hymns

Orphic tradition

Hymn 18 | Primary edition: Greek source text

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19.1

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Ζεῦ πάτερ, ὑψίδρομον πυρσαυγέα κόσμον ἐλαύνων,

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στράπτων αἰθερίου στεροπῆς πανυπέρτατον αἴγλην,

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παμμακάρων ἕδρανον θείαις βροντῇσι τινάσσων,

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νάμασι παννεφέλοις στεροπὴν φλεγέθουσαν ἀναίθων,

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λαίλαπας, ὄμβρους, πρηστῆρας κρατερούς τε κεραυνούς,

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βάλλων εὐροθίους, φλογερούς, νεφέεσσι καλύπτων

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παμφλέκτους, κραιπνούς, φρικώδεας, ὀβριμοθύμους,

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πτηνὸν ὅπλον δεινόν, κλονοκάρδιον, ὀρθοέθειρον,

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αἰφνίδιον, βρονταῖον, ἀνίκητον βέλος ἁγνὸν

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ῥοίζου ἀπειρεσίου δινεύμασι, παμφάγον ὁρμῇ,

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ἄρρηκτον, βαρύθυμον, ἀμαιμάκετον πρηστῆρος

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οὐράνιον βέλος ὀξὺ καταιβάτου αἰθαλόεντος,

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ὃν καὶ γαῖα πέφρικε θάλασσά τε παμφανόωντα,

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καὶ θῆρες πτήσσουσιν, ὅτ’ ἂν κτύπος οὖας ἐσέλθῃ·

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μαρμαίρει δὲ πρόσωπ’ αὐγαῖς, σμαραγεῖ δὲ κεραυνὸς

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αἰθέρος ἐν γυάλοισι· διαρρήξας δὲ χιτῶνα,

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οὐράνιον προκάλυμμ’ ἀφίεις ἀργῆτα κεραυνόν.

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ἀλλά, μάκαρ, θυμὸν βαρὺν ἔμβαλε κύμασι πόντου,

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ἠδ’ ὀρέων κορυφῇσι· τὸ σὸν κράτος ἴσμεν ἅπαντες.

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ἀλλὰ χάριν λοιβῆς σὺ δίδου, φρεσὶν αἴσιμα πάντα,

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ζωήν τ’ ὀλβιόθυμον, ὁμοῦ θ’ ὑγίειαν ἄνασσαν

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εἰρήνην τε θεάν, κουροτρόφον, ἀγλαότιμον,

19.23

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καὶ βίον εὐθύμοισιν ἀεὶ θάλλοντα λογισμοῖς.

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/Κεραύνιου Διός :: pages 83,84 :: Abel hymn 19

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

Canonical pilot note: this original-language edition is currently imported for Hymn 18 only and carries line-level CTS URNs in the runtime corpus.