Orphic Hymns

Orphic tradition

Hymn 42 | Primary edition: Greek source text

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43.1	Primary Ὧραι, θυγατέρες Θέμιδος καὶ Ζηνὸς ἄνακτος, Permalink
43.2	Primary Εὐνομίη τε Δίκη τε καὶ Εἰρήνη πολύολβε, Permalink
43.3	Primary εἰαριναί, λειμωνιάδες, πολυάνθεμοι, ἁγναί, Permalink
43.4	Primary παντόχροοι, πολύοδμοι ἐν ἀνθεμοειδέσι πνοιαῖς, Permalink
43.5	Primary Ὧραι ἀειθαλέες, περικυκλάδες, ἡδυπρόσωποι, Permalink
43.6	Primary πέπλους ἑννύμεναι δροσεροὺς ἀνθῶν πολυθρέπτων, Permalink
43.7	Primary ἁγνῆς Φερσεφόνης συμπαίκτορες, εὖτέ ἑ Μοῖραι Permalink
43.8	Primary καὶ Χάριτες κυκλίοισι χοροῖς πρὸς φῶς ἀνάγωσι Permalink
43.9	Primary Ζηνὶ χαριζόμεναι καὶ μητέρι καρποδοτείρῃ· Permalink
43.10	Primary ἔλθετ’ ἐπ’ εὐφήμους τελετὰς ὁσίας νεομύστοις Permalink
43.11	Primary εὐκάρπους καιρῶν γενέσεις ἐπάγουσαι ἀμεμφῶς. 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/Ωρών :: pages 95,96 :: Abel hymn 43

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