Orphic Hymns

Orphic tradition

Hymn 56 | Primary edition: Greek source text

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57.1	Primary Κωκυτοῦ ναίων ἀνυπόστροφον οἶμον ἀνάγκης, Permalink
57.2	Primary ὃς ψυχὰς θνητῶν κατάγεις ὑπὸ νέρτερα γαίης, Permalink
57.3	Primary Ἑρμῆ, βακχεχόροιο Διωνύσοιο γένεθλον Permalink
57.4	Primary καὶ Παφίης κούρης, ἑλικοβλεφάρου Ἀφροδίτης, Permalink
57.5	Primary ὃς παρὰ Φερσεφόνης ἱερὸν δόμον ἀμφιπολεύεις, Permalink
57.6	Primary αἰνομόροις ψυχαῖς πομπὸς κατὰ γαῖαν ὑπάρχων, Permalink
57.7	Primary ἃς κατάγεις, ὁπότ’ ἂν μοίρης χρόνος εἰσαφίκηται, Permalink
57.8	Primary εὐιέρῳ ῥάβδῳ θέλγων ὑπνοδώτειρα πάντα, Permalink
57.9	Primary καὶ πάλιν ὑπνώοντας ἐγείρεις· σοὶ γὰρ ἔδωκε τιμὴν Permalink
57.10	Primary τιμὴν Φερσεφόνεια θεὰ κατὰ Τάρταρον εὐρὺν Permalink
57.11	Primary ψυχαῖς αἰνομόροις θνητῶν ὁδὸν ἡγεμονεύειν. Permalink
57.12	Primary ἀλλά, μάκαρ, πέμποις μύσταις τέλος ἐσθλὸν ἐπ’ ἔργοις. 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/Ερμού Χθονίου :: pages 102,103 :: Abel hymn 57

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