Orphic Hymns

Orphic tradition

Hymn 26 | Primary edition: Greek source text

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27.1	Primary Ἀθανάτων θεότιμε θεῶν μῆτερ, τροφὲ πάντων, Permalink
27.2	Primary τῇδε μόλοις, κράντειρα θεά, σέο, πότνι’, ἐπ’ εὐχαῖς, Permalink
27.3	Primary ταυροφόνων ζεύξασα ταχύδρομον ἅρμα λεόντων, Permalink
27.4	Primary σκηπτοῦχε κλεινοῖο πόλου, πολυώνυμε, σεμνή, Permalink
27.5	Primary ἣ κατέχεις κόσμοιο μέσον θρόνον, οὕνεκεν αὐτὴ Permalink
27.6	Primary γαῖαν ἔχεις, θνητοῖσι τροφὰς παρέχουσα προσηνεῖς. Permalink
27.7	Primary ἐκ σέο δ’ ἀθανάτων τε γένος θνητῶν τ’ ἐλοχεύθη, Permalink
27.8	Primary σοὶ ποταμοὶ κρατέονται ἀεὶ καὶ πᾶσα θάλασσα, Permalink
27.9	Primary Ἰστίη αὐδαχθεῖσα· σὲ δ’ ὀλβοδότιν καλέουσι, Permalink
27.10	Primary παντοίων ἀγαθῶν θνητοῖς ὅτι δῶρα χαρίζῃ. Permalink
27.11	Primary ἔρχεο πρὸς τελετήν, ὦ πότνια, τυμπανοτερπές, Permalink
27.12	Primary πανδαμάτωρ, Φρυγίης, σώτειρα, Κρόνου συνόμευνε, Permalink
27.13	Primary Οὐρανόπαι, πρέσβειρα, βιοθρέπτειρα, φίλοιστρε· Permalink
27.14	Primary ἔρχεο γηθόσυνος, κεχαρημένη εὐσεβίῃσιν. 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/Μητρός θεών :: pages 86,87 :: Abel hymn 27

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