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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
You are reading Hymn 19.
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
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