Orphic Hymns

Orphic tradition

Hymn 1 | Primary edition: Greek source text

Previous hymnNext hymnsingle editionContinue down

Text

Position

Line 1 of 14

Line Ref	Greek source text \| Ancient Greek
2.1	Primary Κλῦθί μοι, ὦ πολύσεμνε θεά, πολυώνυμε δαῖμον, Permalink
2.2	Primary ὠδίνων ἐπαρωγέ, λεχῶν ἡδεῖα πρόσοψι, Permalink
2.3	Primary θηλειῶν σώτειρα, μόνη φιλόπαις, ἀγανόφρον, Permalink
2.4	Primary ὠκυλόχεια, παροῦσα νέαις θνητῶν, Προθυραία, Permalink
2.5	Primary κλειδοῦχ’, εὐάντητε, φιλοτρόφε, πᾶσι προσηνές, Permalink
2.6	Primary ἣ κατέχεις οἴκους πάντων θαλίαις τε γέγηθας, Permalink
2.7	Primary λυσίζων’, ἀφανής, ἔργοισι δὲ φαίνῃ ἅπασι, Permalink
2.8	Primary συμπάσχεις ὠδῖσι καὶ εὐτοκίῃσι γέγηθας, Permalink
2.9	Primary Εἰλείθυια, λύουσα πόνους δειναῖς ἐν ἀνάγκαις∙ Permalink
2.10	Primary μούνην γὰρ σὲ καλοῦσι λεχοί, ψυχῆς ἀνάπαυμα∙ Permalink
2.11	Primary ἐν γὰρ σοὶ τοκετῶν λαθικηδέες εἰσιν ἀνῖαι. Permalink
2.12	Primary Ἄρτεμις Εἰλείθυια, καὶ ἡ σεμνὴ Προθυραία. Permalink
2.13	Primary κλῦθι μάκαιρα, δίδου δὲ γονὰς ἐπαρωγὸς ἐοῦσα Permalink
2.14	Primary καὶ σῶζ’, ὥσπερ ἔφυς αἰεὶ σώτειρα προπάντων. 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

You are reading Hymn 1.

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/Προθυραίας :: pages 73 :: Abel hymn 2

Previous hymnNext hymnsingle editionBack to top