Orphic Hymns

Orphic tradition

Hymn 23 | Primary edition: Greek source text

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24.1	Primary Νηρέος εἰναλίου νύμφαι καλυκώπιδες, ἁγναί, Permalink
24.2	Primary φρικαλέαι, βύθιαι, χοροπαίγμονες, ὑγροκέλευθοι, Permalink
24.3	Primary πεντήκοντα κόραι περὶ κύμασι βακχεύουσαι, Permalink
24.4	Primary Τριτώνων ἐπ’ ὄχοισιν ἀγαλλόμεναι περὶ νῶτα Permalink
24.5	Primary θηροτύποις μορφαῖς, ὧν βόσκει σώματα πόντος· Permalink
24.6	Primary ἄλλοι θ’ οἳ ναίουσι βυθόν, Τριτώνιον οἶδμα, Permalink
24.7	Primary ὑδρόδομοι, σκιρτηταί, ἑλισσόμενοι περὶ κῦμα, Permalink
24.8	Primary ποντοπλάνοι δελφῖνες, ἁλιρρόθιοι, κυαναυγεῖς· Permalink
24.9	Primary ὑμᾶς κικλήσκω πέμπειν μύσταις πολὺν ὄλβον· Permalink
24.10	Primary ὑμεῖς γὰρ πρῶται τελετὴν ἀνεδείξατε σεμνὴν Permalink
24.11	Primary εὐιέρου Βάκχοιο καὶ ἁγνῆς Φερσεφονείης, Permalink
24.12	Primary Καλλιόπῃ σὺν μητρὶ καὶ Ἀπόλλωνι ἄνακτι. Permalink

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/Νηρηίδων :: pages 85 :: Abel hymn 24

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