Orphic Hymns

Orphic tradition

Hymn 76 | Primary edition: Greek source text

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77.1	Primary Μνημοσύνην καλέω, Ζηνὸς σύλλεκτρον, ἄνασσαν, Permalink
77.2	Primary ἣ Μούσας τέκνωσ’ ἱεράς, ὁσίας, λιγυφώνους, Permalink
77.3	Primary ἐκτὸς ἕχουσ’ ἀπάτης μνήμην βλαψίφρονος αἰεί, Permalink
77.4	Primary πάντα νόον συνέχουσα βροτῶν ψυχῇσι σύνοικον, Permalink
77.5	Primary εὐδύνατον κρατερὸν θνητῶν αὔξουσα λογισμόν, Permalink
77.6	Primary ἡδυτάτη, φιλάγρυπνος ὑπομνήσκουσά τε πάντα, Permalink
77.7	Primary ὧν ἂν ἕκαστος ἀεὶ στέρνοις γνώμην κατάθηται, Permalink
77.8	Primary οὔτι παρεκβαίνουσ’, ἐπεγείρουσα φρένα πᾶσιν. Permalink
77.9	Primary ἀλλά, μάκαιρα θεά, μύσταις μνήμην ἐπέγειρε Permalink
77.10	Primary εὐιέρου τελετῆς, λήθην δ’ ἀπὸ τῶνδ’ ἀπόπεμπε. 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/Μνημοσύνης :: pages 111,112 :: Abel hymn 77

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