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Orphic Hymns

Orphic tradition

Hymn 40 | Primary edition: Greek source text

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41.1

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Ἀνταίη βασίλεια, θεά, πολυώνυμε μῆτερ

41.2

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ἀθανάτων τε θεῶν ἠδὲ θνητῶν ἀνθρώπων,

41.3

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ἥ ποτε μαστεύουσα πολυπλάγκτῳ ἐν ἀνίῃ

41.4

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νηστείαν κατέπαυσας Ἐλευσῖνος γυάλοισιν

41.5

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ἦλθές τ’ εἰς Ἀίδην πρὸς ἀγαυὴν Φερσεφόνειαν

41.6

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ἁγνὸν παῖδα Δυσαύλου ὁδηγητῆρα λαχοῦσα,

41.7

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μηνυτῆρ’ ἁγίων λέκτρων χθονίου Διὸς ἁγνοῦ,

41.8

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Εὐβουλῆα τεκοῦσα θεὰ θνητῆς ὑπ’ ἀνάγκης.

41.9

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ἀλλά, θεά, λίτομαί σε, πολυλλίστη βασίλεια,

41.10

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ἐλθεῖν εὐάντητον ἐπ’ εὐιέρῳ σέο μύστῃ.

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/Μητρός Ανταίας :: pages 95 :: Abel hymn 41

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

Canonical pilot note: this original-language edition is currently imported for Hymn 40 only and carries line-level CTS URNs in the runtime corpus.