Orphic Hymns

Orphic tradition

Hymn 35 | Primary edition: Greek source text

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36.1	Primary Κλῦθί μευ, ὦ βασίλεια, Διὸς πολυώνυμε κούρη, Permalink
36.2	Primary Τιτηνίς, βρομίη, μεγαλώνυμε, τοξότι, σεμνή, Permalink
36.3	Primary πασιφαής, δᾳδοῦχε, θεά Δίκτυννα, λοχείη, Permalink
36.4	Primary ὠδίνων ἐπαρωγὲ καὶ ὠδίνων ἀμύητε, Permalink
36.5	Primary λυσίζωνε, φίλοιστρε, κυνηγέτι, λυσιμέριμνε, Permalink
36.6	Primary εὔδρομος, ἰοχέαιρα, φιλαγρότι, νυκτερόφοιτε, Permalink
36.7	Primary κλῃσίη, εὐάντητε, λυτηριάς, ἀρσενόμορφε, Permalink
36.8	Primary ὀρθίη, ὠκυλόχεια, βροτῶν κουροτρόφε δαῖμον, Permalink
36.9	Primary ἀμβροσίη, χθονίη, θηροκτόνος, ὀλβιόμοιρε, Permalink
36.10	Primary ἣ κατέχεις ὀρέων δρυμούς, ἐλαφηβόλε, σεμνή, Permalink
36.11	Primary πότνια, παμβασίλεια, καλὸν θάλος αἰὲν ἐοῦσα, Permalink
36.12	Primary δρυμονίη, σκυλακῖτι, Κυδωνιάς, αἰολόμορφε· Permalink
36.13	Primary ἐλθέ, θεὰ σώτειρα, φίλη, μύστῃσιν ἅπασιν Permalink
36.14	Primary εὐάντητος, ἄγουσα καλοὺς καρποὺς ἀπὸ γαίης Permalink
36.15	Primary εἰρήνην τ’ ἐρατὴν καλλιπλόκαμόν θ’ ὑγίειαν· Permalink
36.16	Primary πέμποις δ’ εἰς ὀρέων κεφαλὰς νούσους τε καὶ ἄλγη. 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/Αρτέμιδος :: pages 91,92 :: Abel hymn 36

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