Orphic Hymns

Orphic tradition

Hymn 78 | Primary edition: Greek source text

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79.1	Primary Οὐρανόπαιδ’ ἁγνὴν καλέω, Θέμιν εὐπατέρειαν, Permalink
79.2	Primary Γαίης τὸ βλάστημα νέον, καλυκώπιδα κούρην, Permalink
79.3	Primary ἣ πρώτη κατέδειξε βροτοῖς μαντήιον ἁγνὸν Permalink
79.4	Primary Δελφικῷ ἐν κευθμῶνι θεμιστεύουσα θεοῖσι, Permalink
79.5	Primary Πυθίῳ ἐν δαπέδῳ, ὅτε Πυθοῖ ἐμβασίλευεν· Permalink
79.6	Primary ἣ καὶ Φοῖβον ἄνακτα θεμιστοσύνας ἐδίδαξε· Permalink
79.7	Primary πάντιμ’, ἀγλαόμορφε, σεβάσμιε, νυκτιπόλευτε· Permalink
79.8	Primary πρώτη γὰρ τελετὰς ἁγίας θνητοῖς ἀνέφηνας, Permalink
79.9	Primary Βακχιακὰς ἀνὰ νύκτας ἐπευάζουσα ἄνακτα· Permalink
79.10	Primary ἐκ σέο γὰρ τιμαὶ μακάρων μυστήριά θ’ ἁγνά. Permalink
79.11	Primary ἀλλά, μάκαιρ’, ἔλθοις κεχαρημένη εὔφρονι βουλῇ Permalink
79.12	Primary εὐιέρους ἐπὶ μυστιπόλου τελετὰς σέο, κούρη. 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/Θέμιδος :: pages 112,113 :: Abel hymn 79

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