Orphic Hymns

Orphic tradition

Hymn 38 | Primary edition: Greek source text

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Line Ref	Greek source text \| Ancient Greek
39.1	Primary Κικλήσκω χθονὸς ἀενάου βασιλῆα μέγιστον, Permalink
39.2	Primary Κύρβαντ’ ὀλβιόμοιρον, Ἀρήιον, ἀπροσόρατον, Permalink
39.3	Primary νυκτερινὸν Κουρῆτα, φόβων ἀποπαύστορα δεινῶν, Permalink
39.4	Primary φαντασιῶν ἐπαρωγόν, ἐρημοπλάνον Κορύβαντα, Permalink
39.5	Primary αἰολόμορφον ἄνακτα, θεὸν διφυῆ, πολύμορφον, Permalink
39.6	Primary φοίνιον, αἱμαχθέντα κασιγνήτων ὑπὸ δισσῶν, Permalink
39.7	Primary Δηοῦς ὃς γνώῃσιν ἐνήλλαξας δέμας ἁγνόν, Permalink
39.8	Primary θηρότυπον θέμενος μορφὴν δνοφεροῖο δράκοντος· Permalink
39.9	Primary κλῦθι, μάκαρ, φωνῶν, χαλεπὴν δ’ ἀποπέμπεο μῆνιν, Permalink
39.10	Primary παύων φαντασίας, ψυχῆς ἐκπλήκτου ἀνάγνου. Permalink

Text notes and edition context

Work

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/Κορύβαντος :: pages 93,94 :: Abel hymn 39

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