Orphic Hymns

Orphic tradition

Hymn 49 | Primary edition: Greek source text

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50.1	Primary Κλῦθι, μάκαρ, Διὸς υἷ’, ἐπιλήνιε Βάκχε, διμῆτορ, Permalink
50.2	Primary σπέρμα πολύμνηστον, πολυώνυμε, λύσιε δαῖμον, Permalink
50.3	Primary κρυψίγονον μακάρων ἱερὸν θάλος, εὔιε Βάκχε, Permalink
50.4	Primary εὐτραφές, εὔκαρπε, πολυγηθέα καρπὸν ἀέξων, Permalink
50.5	Primary ῥηξίχθον, ληναῖε, μεγασθενές, αἰολόμορφε, Permalink
50.6	Primary παυσίπονον θνητοῖσι φανεὶς ἄκος, ἱερὸν ἄνθος Permalink
50.7	Primary χάρμα βροτοῖς φιλάλυπον, ἐπάφιε, καλλιέθειρε, Permalink
50.8	Primary λύσιε, θυρσομανές, βρόμι’, εὔιε, πᾶσιν ἐύφρον, Permalink
50.9	Primary οἷς ἐθέλεις θνητῶν ἠδ’ ἀθανάτων σε πιφαύσκειν· Permalink
50.10	Primary νῦν σε καλῶ μύστῃσι μολεῖν ἡδύν, φερέκαρπον. Permalink

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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

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