Orphic Hymns

Orphic tradition

Hymn 24 | Primary edition: Greek source text

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25.1	Primary Πρωτέα κικλήσκω, πόντου κληῖδας ἔχοντα, Permalink
25.2	Primary πρωτογενῆ, πάσης φύσεως ἀρχὰς ὃς ἔφηνεν Permalink
25.3	Primary ὕλην ἀλλάσσων ἱερὴν ἰδέαις πολυμόρφοις, Permalink
25.4	Primary πάντιμος, πολύβουλος, ἐπιστάμενος τά τ’ ἐόντα Permalink
25.5	Primary ὅσσα τε πρόσθεν ἔην ὅσα τ’ ἔσσεται ὕστερον αὖτις· Permalink
25.6	Primary πάντα γὰρ αὐτὸς ἔχων μεταβάλλεται, οὐδέ τις ἄλλος Permalink
25.7	Primary ἀθανάτων, οἳ ἔχουσιν ἕδος ωιφόεντος Ὀλύμπου Permalink
25.8	Primary καὶ πόντον καὶ γαῖαν ἐνηέριοί τε ποτώνται· Permalink
25.9	Primary πάντα γὰρ ἐν Πρωτεῖ πρώτη φύσις ἐγκατέθηκε. Permalink
25.10	Primary ἀλλά, πάτερ, μόλε μυστιπόλοις ὁσίῃσι προνοίαις Permalink
25.11	Primary πέμπων εὐόλβου βιότου τέλος ἐσθλὸν ἐπ’ ἔργοις. 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

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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/Πρωτέως :: pages 86 :: Abel hymn 25

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