Orphic Hymns

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Hymn 21 | Primary edition: Greek source text

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22.1	Primary Ὠκεανοῦ καλέω νύμφην, γλαυκώπιδα Τηθύν, Permalink
22.2	Primary κυανόπεπλον ἄνασσαν, εὔτροχα κυμαίνουσαν, Permalink
22.3	Primary αὔραις ἡδυπνόοισι πατασσομένην περὶ γαῖαν. Permalink
22.4	Primary θραύουσ’ αἰγιαλοῖσι πέτρῃσί τε κύματα μακρά, Permalink
22.5	Primary εὐδίοις ἁπαλοῖσι γαληνιόωσα δρόμοισι, Permalink
22.6	Primary νηυσὶν ἀγαλλομένη, θηροτρόφος, ὑγροκέλευθε, Permalink
22.7	Primary μῆτερ μὲν Κύπριδος, μῆτερ νεφέων ἐρεβεννῶν, Permalink
22.8	Primary καὶ πάσης πηγῆς νυμφῶν νασμοῖσι βρυούσης· Permalink
22.9	Primary κλῦθί μευ, ὦ πολύσεμνε, καὶ εὐμενέουσ’ ἐπαρήγοις, Permalink
22.10	Primary εὐθυδρόμοις οὖρον νηυσὶν πέμπουσα, μάκαιρα. Permalink

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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/Θαλάσσης :: pages 84,85 :: Abel hymn 22

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