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Orphic Hymns

Orphic tradition

Hymn 39 | Primary edition: Greek source text

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Δηοῖ, παμμήτειρα θεά, πολυώνυμε δαῖμον,

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σεμνὴ Δήμητερ, κουροτρόφος, ὀλβιοδῶτι,

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πλουτοδότειρα θεά, σταχυοτρόφε, παντοδότειρα,

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εἰρήνῃ χαίρουσα καὶ ἐργασίαις πολυμόχθοις,

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σπερμείη, σωρῖτις, ἀλωαίη, χλοόκαρπε,

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ἣ ναίεις ἁγνοῖσιν Ἐλευσῖνος γυάλοισιν,

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ἱμερόεσσ’, ἐρατή, θνητῶν θρέπτειρα προπάντων,

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ἡ πρώτη ζεύξασα βοῶν ἀροτῆρα τένοντα

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καὶ βίον ἱμερόεντα βροτοῖς πολύολβον ἀνεῖσα,

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αὐξιθαλές, Βρομίοιο συνέστιος, ἀγλαότιμος,

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λαμπαδόεσσ’, ἁγνή, δρεπάνοις χαίρουσα θερείοις·

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σὺ χθονίη, σὺ δὲ φαινομένη, σὺ δε πᾶσι προσηνής·

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εὔτεκνε, παιδοφίλη, σεμνή, κουροτρόφε κούρη,

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ἅρμα δρακοντείοισιν ὑποζεύξασα χαλινοῖς

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ἐγκυκλίοις δίναις περὶ σὸν θρόνον εὐαζόντων,

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μουνογενής, πολύτεκνε θεά, πολυπότνια θνητοῖς,

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ἧς πολλαὶ μορφαί, πολυάνθεμοι, ἱεροθαλεῖς.

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ἐλθέ, μάκαιρ’, ἁγνή, καρποῖς βρίθουσα θερείοις,

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εἰρήνην κατάγουσα καὶ εὐνομίην ἐρατεινὴν

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καὶ πλοῦτον πολύολβον, ὁμοῦ δ’ ὑγίειαν ἄνασσαν.

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 39.

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/Δήμητρος Ελευσινίας :: pages 94 :: Abel hymn 40

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

Canonical pilot note: this original-language edition is currently imported for Hymn 39 only and carries line-level CTS URNs in the runtime corpus.