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Orphic Hymns

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Hymn 28 | Primary edition: Greek source text

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Φερσεφόνη, θυγάτερ μεγάλου Διός, ἐλθέ, μάκαιρα,

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μουνογένεια θεά, κεχαρισμένα δ’ ἱερὰ δέξαι,

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Πλούτωνος πολύτιμε δάμαρ, κεδνή, βιοδῶτι,

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ἣ κατέχεις Ἀίδαο πύλας ὑπὸ κεύθεα γαίης,

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Πραξιδίκη, ἐρατοπλόκαμε, Δηοῦς θάλος ἁγνόν,

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Εὐμενίδων γενέτειρα, καταχθονίων βασίλεια,

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ἣν Ζεὺς ἀρρήτοισι γοναῖς τεκνώσατο κούρην,

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μῆτερ ἐριβρεμέτου πολυμόρφου Εὐβουλῆος,

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Ὡρῶν συμπαίκτειρα, φαεσφόρος, ἀγλαόμορφε·

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σεμνή, παντοκράτειρα, κόρη καρποῖσι βρύουσα,

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εὐφεγγής, κερόεσσα, μόνη θνητοῖσι ποθεινή,

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ἐαρινή, λειμωνιάσιν χαίρουσα πνοῇσιν,

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ἱερὸν ἐκφαίνουσα δέμας βλαστοῖς χλοοκάρποις,

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ἁρπαγιμαῖα λέχη μετοπωρινὰ νυμφευθεῖσα·

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ζωὴ καὶ θάνατος μούνη θνητοῖς πολυμόχθοις,

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Φερσεφόνη· φέρβεις γὰρ ἀεὶ καὶ πάντα φονεύεις.

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κλῦθι, μάκαιρα θεά, καρποὺς δ’ ἀνάπεμπ’ ἀπὸ γαίης

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εἰρήνῃ θάλλουσα καὶ ἠπιοχείρ’ ὑγιείῃ

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καὶ βίῳ εὐόλβῳ λιπαρὸν γῆρας κατάγοντι

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πρὸς σὸν χῶρον, ἄνασσα, καὶ εὐδύνατον Πλούτωνα.

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/Ύμνος Φερσεφόνης :: pages 87,88 :: Abel hymn 29

Primary source: Greek ritual source texts | Wikisource / Internet Archive.

Canonical pilot note: this original-language edition is currently imported for Hymn 28 only and carries line-level CTS URNs in the runtime corpus.