Orphic Hymns

Orphic tradition

Hymn 25 | Primary edition: Greek source text

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26.1	Primary Γαῖα θεά, μῆτερ μακάρων θνητῶν τ’ ἀνθρώπων, Permalink
26.2	Primary πάντροφε, πανδώτειρα, τελεσφόρε, παντολέτειρα, Permalink
26.3	Primary αὐξιθαλές, φερέκαρπε, καλαῖς ὥρῃσι βρύουσα· Permalink
26.4	Primary ἕδρανον ἀθανάτου κόσμου, πολυποίκιλε κούρη, Permalink
26.5	Primary ἣ λοχίαις ὠδῖσι κύεις καρπὸν πολυειδῆ, Permalink
26.6	Primary ἀιδίη, πολύσεπτε, βαθύστερν’, ὀλβιόμοιρε, Permalink
26.7	Primary ἡδυπνόοις χαίρουσα χλόαις, πολυάνθεμε δαῖμον, Permalink
26.8	Primary ὀμβροχαρές, περὶ τὴν κόσμος πολυδαίδαλος ἄστρων Permalink
26.9	Primary εἱλεῖται φύσει ἀενάῳ καὶ ῥεύμασι δεινοῖς. Permalink
26.10	Primary ἀλλά, μάκαιρα θεά, καρποὺς αὔξοις πολυγηθεῖς Permalink
26.11	Primary εὐμενὲς ἦτορ ἔχουσα, σὺν εὐόλβοισιν ἐν ὥραις. 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/Γης :: pages 86 :: Abel hymn 26

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