Orphic Hymns

Orphic tradition

Hymn 43 | Primary edition: Greek source text

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44.1	Primary Κικλήσκω κούρην Καδμηίδα παμβασίλειαν, Permalink
44.2	Primary εὐειδῆ Σεμέλην, ἐρατοπλόκαμον, βαθύκολπον, Permalink
44.3	Primary μητέρα θυρσοφόροιο Διωνύσου πολυγηθοῦς, Permalink
44.4	Primary ἣ μεγάλας ὠδῖνας ἐλάσσατο πυρφόρῳ αὐγῇ Permalink
44.5	Primary ἀστραπίοιο τεκοῦσα Διὸς βολίσι Κρονίοιο· Permalink
44.6	Primary τιμὰς τευξαμένη παρ’ ἀγαυῆς Φερσεφονείης Permalink
44.7	Primary ἐν θνητοῖσι βροτοῖσιν ἀνὰ τριετηρίδας ὥρας, Permalink
44.8	Primary ἡνίκα σοῦ Βάκχου γονίμην ὠδῖνα τελῶσιν Permalink
44.9	Primary εὐίερόν τε τράπεζαν ἰδὲ μυστήριά θ’ ἁγνά. Permalink
44.10	Primary νῦν σέ, θεά, λίτομαι, κούρη Καδμηίς, ἄνασσα, Permalink
44.11	Primary πρηύνοον καλέων αἰεὶ μύσταισιν ὑπάρχειν. 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/Σεμέλης :: pages 96 :: Abel hymn 44

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