Orphic Hymns

Orphic tradition

Hymn 65 | Primary edition: Greek source text

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66.1	Primary Ἥφαιστ’ ὀμβριμόθυμε, μεγασθενές, ἀκάματον πῦρ, Permalink
66.2	Primary λαμπόμενε φλογεραῖς αὐγαῖς, φαεσίμβροτε δαῖμον, Permalink
66.3	Primary φωσφόρε, καρτερόχειρ, αἰώνιε, τεχνοδίαιτε, Permalink
66.4	Primary ἐργαστήρ, κόσμοιο μέρος, στοιχεῖον ἀμεμφές, Permalink
66.5	Primary παμφάγε, πανδαμάτωρ, πανυπέρτατε, παντοδίαιτε, Permalink
66.6	Primary αἰθήρ, ἥλιος, ἄστρα, σελήνη, φῶς ἀμίαντον· Permalink
66.7	Primary ταῦτα γὰρ Ἡφαίστοιο μέλη θνητοῖσι προφαίνει. Permalink
66.8	Primary πάντα δὲ οἶκον ἔχεις, πᾶσαν πόλιν, ἔθνεα πάντα, Permalink
66.9	Primary σώματά τε θνητῶν οἰκεῖς, πολύολβε, κραταιέ. Permalink
66.10	Primary κλῦθι, μάκαρ, κλῄζω σε πρὸς εὐιέρους ἐπιλοιβάς, Permalink
66.11	Primary αἰὲν ὅπως χαίρουσιν ἐπ’ ἔργοις ἥμερος ἔλθῃς. Permalink
66.12	Primary παῦσον λυσσῶσαν μανίαν πυρὸς ἀκαμάτοιο Permalink
66.13	Primary καῦσιν ἔχων φύσεως ἐν σώμασιν ἡμετέροισιν. Permalink

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.

Pinned source commit: elwikisource

Source path: Ορφικοί ύμνοι/Ηφαίστου :: pages 107 :: Abel hymn 66

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