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Orphic Hymns

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Hymn 54 | Primary edition: Greek source text

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Οὐρανίη, πολύυμνε, φιλομμειδὴς Ἀφροδίτη,

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ποντογενές, γενέτειρα θεά, φιλοπάννυχε, σεμνή,

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νυκτερίη, ζεύκτειρα, δολοπλόκε μῆτερ ἀνάγκης·

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πάντα γὰρ ἐκ σέθεν ἐστίν, ὑπεζεύξω δέ τε κόσμον

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καὶ κρατέεις τρισσῶν μοιρῶν, γεννᾷς δὲ τὰ πάντα,

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ὅσσα τ’ ἐν οὐρανῷ ἐστι καὶ ἐν γαίῃ πολυκάρπῳ

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ἐν πόντου τε βυθῷ, σεμνὴ Βάκχοιο πάρεδρε,

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τερπομένη θαλίῃσι, γαμοστόλε μῆτερ ἐρώτων,

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πειθοῖ λεκτροχαρές, κρυφία, χαριδῶτι ἄνασσα,

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φαινομένη, ἀφανής, ἐρατοπλόκαμ, εὐπατέρεια,

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νυμφιδίη, σύνδαιτι θεῶν σκηπτοῦχε, λυκείη,

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γεννοδότειρα, φίλανδρε, ποθεινοτάτη, βιοδῶτι,

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ἡ ζεύξασα βροτοὺς ἀχαλινώτοισιν ἀνάγκαις

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καὶ θηρῶν πολὺ φῦλον ἐρωτομανῶν ὑπὸ φίλτρων·

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ἔρχεο, Κυπρογενὲς θεῖον γένος, εἴτ’ ἐν’ Ὀλύμπῳ

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ἐσσί, θεὰ βασίλεια, καλῷ γήθουσα προσώπῳ,

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εἴτε καὶ εὐλιβάνου Συρίης ἕδος ἀμφιπολεύεις,

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εἴτε σύ γ’ ἐν πεδίοισι σὺν ἅρμασι χρυσεοτεύκτοις

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Αἰγύπτου κατέχεις ἱερῆς γονιμώδεα λουτρά,

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ἢ καὶ κυκνείοισιν ὄχοις ἐπὶ πόντιον οἶδμα

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ἐρχομένη χαίρεις κητῶν κυκλίῃσι χορείαις,

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ἢ νύμφαις τέρπῃ κυανώπισιν ἐν χθονὶ Δίῃ,

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θῖνας ἐπ’ αἰγιαλοῖς ψαμαθώδεσιν ἅλματι κούφῳ·

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εἴτ' ἐν Κύπρῳ, ἄνασσα, τροφῳ σέο, ἔνθα καλαί τε

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παρθένοι ἄδμηται νύμφαι τ’ ἀνὰ πάντ’ ἐνιαυτὸν

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ὑμνοῦσιν, σέ, μάκαιρα, καὶ ἄμβροτον ἁγνὸν Ἄδωνιν.

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ἐλθέ, μάκαιρα θεά, μάλ’ ἐπήρατον εἶδος ἔχουσα·

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ψυχῇ γάρ σε καλῶ σεμνῇ ἁγνοῖσι λόγοισιν.

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.

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

Canonical pilot note: this original-language edition is currently imported for Hymn 54 only and carries line-level CTS URNs in the runtime corpus.