Orphic Hymns

Orphic tradition

Hymn 5 | Primary edition: Greek source text

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6.1	Primary Πρωτόγονον καλέω διφυῆ, μέγαν, αἰθερόπλαγκτον, Permalink
6.2	Primary ᾠογενῆ, χρυσέῃσιν ἀγαλλόμενον πτερύγεσσι, Permalink
6.3	Primary ταυροβόαν, γένεσιν μακάρων θνητῶν τ’ ἀνθρώπων, Permalink
6.4	Primary σπέρμα πολύμνηστον, πολυόργιον, Ἠρικεπαῖον, Permalink
6.5	Primary ἄρρητον, κρύφιον, ῥοιζήτορα, παμφαὲς ἔρνος, Permalink
6.6	Primary ὄσσων ὃς σκοτόεσσαν ἀπημαύρωσας ὁμίχλην Permalink
6.7	Primary πάντῃ δινηθεὶς πτερύγων ῥιπαῖς κατὰ κόσμον Permalink
6.8	Primary λαμπρὸν ἄγων φάος ἁγνόν, ἀφ’ οὗ σε Φάνητα κικλήσκω Permalink
6.9	Primary ἠδὲ Πρίηπον ἄνακτα καὶ Ἀνταύγην ἑλίκωπον. Permalink
6.10	Primary ἀλλά, μάκαρ, πολύμητι, πολύσπορε, βαῖνε γεγηθὼς Permalink
6.11	Primary ἐς τελετὴν ἁγίην πολυποίκιλον ὀργιοφάνταις. 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/Πρωτογόνου :: pages 74,75 :: Abel hymn 6

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