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Orphic Hymns

Orphic tradition

Hymn 2 | Primary edition: Greek source text

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3.1

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Νύκτα θεῶν γενέτειραν ἀείσομαι ἠδὲ καὶ ἀνδρῶν.

3.2

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Νὺξ γένεσις πάντων, ἣν καὶ Κύπριν καλέσωμεν.

3.3

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κλῦθι, μάκαιρα θεά, κυαναυγής, ἀστεροφεγγές,

3.4

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ἡσυχίῃ χαίρουσα καὶ ἠρεμίῃ πολυύπνῳ,

3.5

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εὐφροσύνη, τερπνή, φιλοπάννυχε, μῆτερ ὀνείρων,

3.6

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ληθομέριμν’, ἀγαθή τε πόνων ἀνάπαυσιν ἔχουσα,

3.7

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ὑπνοδότειρα, φίλη πάντων, ἐλάσιππε, νυχαυγές,

3.8

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ἡμιτελές, χθονία ἠδ’ οὐρανία πάλιν αὐτή,

3.9

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ἐγκυκλίη, παίκτειρα διώγμασιν ἠεροφοίτοις,

3.10

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ἣ φάος ἐκπέμπεις ὑπὸ νέρτερα καὶ πάλι φεύγεις

3.11

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εἰς Ἀίδην∙ δεινὴ γὰρ ἀνάγκη πάντα κρατύνει.

3.12

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νῦν δέ, μάκαιρ’ ὦ Νύξ, πολυόλβιε, πᾶσι ποθεινή,

3.13

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εὐάντητε, κλύουσα ἱκετηρίδα φωνὴν

3.14

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ἔλθοις εὐμενέουσα, φόβους δ’ ἀπόπεμπε νυχαυγεῖς.

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

You are reading Hymn 2.

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/Νυκτός :: pages 73,74 :: Abel hymn 3

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

Canonical pilot note: this original-language edition is currently imported for Hymn 2 only and carries line-level CTS URNs in the runtime corpus.