Orphic Hymns

Orphic tradition

Hymn 55 | Primary edition: Greek source text

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56.1	Primary Κλῦθί μευ εὐχομένου, πολυώνυμε, δαῖμον ἄριστε, Permalink
56.2	Primary ἁβροκόμη, φιλέρημε, βρύων ὥρῃσι ποθειναῖς, Permalink
56.3	Primary Εὐβουλεῦ, πολύμορφε, τροφεῦ πάντων ἀρίδηλε, Permalink
56.4	Primary κούρη καὶ κόρε, σὺ πᾶσιν θάλος αἰέν, Ἄδωνι, Permalink
56.5	Primary σβεννύμενος λάμπων τε καλαῖς ἐν κυκλάσιν ὥραις, Permalink
56.6	Primary αὐξιθαλές, δίκερως, πολυήρατε, δακρυότιμε, Permalink
56.7	Primary ἀγλαόμορφε, κυναγεσίοις χαίρων, βαθυχαῖτα, Permalink
56.8	Primary ἱμερόνους, Κύπριδος γλυκερὸν θάλος, ἔρνος ἔρωτος, Permalink
56.9	Primary Φερσεφόνης ἐρασιπλοκάμου λέκτροισι λοχευθείς, Permalink
56.10	Primary ὃς ποτὲ μὲν ναίεις ὑπὸ Τάρταρον ἠερόεντα, Permalink
56.11	Primary ἠδὲ πάλιν πρὸς Ὄλυμπον ἄγεις δέμας ὡριόκαρπον· Permalink
56.12	Primary ἐλθέ, μάκαρ, μύστῃσι φέρων καρποὺς ἀπὸ γαίης. 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/Αδώνιδος :: pages 102 :: Abel hymn 56

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