Orphic Hymns

Orphic tradition

Hymn 51 | Primary edition: Greek source text

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52.1	Primary Κικλήσκω σε, μάκαρ, πολυώνυμε, μανικέ, Βακχεῦ, Permalink
52.2	Primary ταυρόκερως, ληναῖε, πυρίσπορε, Νύσιε, λυσεῦ, Permalink
52.3	Primary μηροτρεφής, λικνῖτα, πυριπόλε καὶ τελετάρχα, Permalink
52.4	Primary νυκτέρι’, Εὐβουλεῦ, μιτρηφόρε, θυρσοτινάκτα, Permalink
52.5	Primary ὄργιον ἄρρητον, τριφυές, κρύφιον Διὸς ἔρνος, Permalink
52.6	Primary πρωτόγον’, ἠρικεπαῖε, θεῶν πάτερ ἠδὲ καὶ υἱέ, Permalink
52.7	Primary ὠμάδιε, σκηπτοῦχε, χοροιμανές, ἁγέτα κώμων, Permalink
52.8	Primary βακχεύων ἁγίας τριετηρίδας ἀμφὶ τιθήνας, Permalink
52.9	Primary ῥηξίχθον, πυριφεγγές, ἐπάφριε, κοῦρε διμῆτωρ, Permalink
52.10	Primary οὐρεσίφοιτος, Ἔρως, νεβριδοστόλος, ἀμφιέτηρε, Permalink
52.11	Primary Παιὰν θυρσεγχής, ὑποκόλπιε, βοτρυόκοσμε, Permalink
52.12	Primary Βάσσαρε, κισσοχαρής, πολυπάρθενε κύδμε κοῦρε· Permalink
52.13	Primary ἐλθέ, μάκαρ, μύστῃσι βρύων κεχαρημένος αἰεί. 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

Source path: Ορφικοί ύμνοι/Τριετηρικού :: pages 99 :: Abel hymn 52

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