Orphic Hymns

Orphic tradition

Hymn 73 | Primary edition: Greek source text

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74.1	Primary Λευκοθέην καλέω Καδμηίδα, δαίμονα σεμνήν, Permalink
74.2	Primary εὐδύνατον, θρέπτειραν ἐυστεφάνου Διονύσου. Permalink
74.3	Primary κλῦθι, θεά, πόντοιο βαθυστέρνου μεδέουσα, Permalink
74.4	Primary κύμασι τερπομένη, θνητῶν σώτειρα μεγίστη· Permalink
74.5	Primary ἐν σοὶ γὰρ νηῶν πελαγοδρόμος ἄστατος ὁρμή, Permalink
74.6	Primary μούνη δὲ θνητῶν οἰκτρὸν μόρον εἰν ἁλὶ λύεις, Permalink
74.7	Primary οἷς ἂν ἐφορμαίνουσα φίλη σωτήριος ἔλθῃς. Permalink
74.8	Primary ἀλλά, θεὰ δέσποινα, μόλοις ἐπαρωγὸς ἐοῦσα Permalink
74.9	Primary νηυσὶν ἐπ’ εὐσέλμοις σωτήριος εὔφρονι βουλῇ, Permalink
74.10	Primary μύσταις ἐν πόντῳ ναυσίδρομον οὖρον ἄγουσα. Permalink

Text notes and edition context

Work

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/Λευκοθέας :: pages 110,111 :: Abel hymn 74

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