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Orphic Hymns

Orphic tradition

Hymn 7 | Primary edition: Greek source text

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8.1

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Κλῦθι μάκαρ, πανδερκὲς ἔχων αἰώνιον ὄμμα,

8.2

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Τιτὰν χρυσαυγής, Ὑπερίων, οὐράνιον φῶς,

8.3

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αὐτοφυής, ἀκάμας, ζῴων ἡδεῖα πρόσοψι,

8.4

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δεξιὲ μὲν γενέτωρ ἠοῦς, εὐώνυμε νυκτός,

8.5

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κρᾶσιν ἔχων ὡρῶν, τετραβάμοσι ποσσὶ χορεύων,

8.6

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εὔδρομε, ῥοιζήτωρ, πυρόεις, φαιδρωπέ, διφρευτά,

8.7

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ῥόμβου ἀπειρεσίου δινεύμασιν οἶμον ἐλαύνων,

8.8

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εὐσεβέσιν καθοδηγὲ καλῶν, ζαμενὴς ἀσεβοῦσι,

8.9

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χρησολύρη, κόσμου τὸν ἐναρμόνιον δρόμον ἕλκων,

8.10

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ἔργων σημάντωρ ἀγαθῶν, ὡροτρόφε κοῦρε.

8.11

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κοσμοκράτωρ, συρικτά, πυρίδρομε, κυκλοέλικτε,

8.12

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φωσφόρος, αἰολόδικτε, φερέσβιε, κάρπιμε Παιάν,

8.13

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ἀιθαλής, ἀμίαντε, χρόνου πάτερ, ἀθάνατε Ζεῦ,

8.14

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εὔδιε, πασιφαές, κόσμου τὸ περίδρομον ὄμμα,

8.15

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σβεννύμενε λάμπων τε καλαῖς ἀκτῖσι φαειναῖς,

8.16

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δεῖκτα δικαιοσύνης, φιλονάματε, δέσποτα κόσμου,

8.17

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πιστοφύλαξ, αἰεὶ πανυπέρτατε, πᾶσιν ἀρωγέ,

8.18

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ὄμμα δικαιοσύνης, ζωῆς φῶς· ὦ ἐλάσιππε,

8.19

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μάστιγι λιγυρῇ τετράορον ἅρμα διώκων·

8.20

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κλῦθι λόγων, ἡδὺν δὲ βίον μύστῃσι πρόφαινε.

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

You are reading Hymn 7.

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/Ηλίου :: pages 75,76 :: Abel hymn 8

Primary source: Greek ritual source texts | Wikisource / Internet Archive.

Canonical pilot note: this original-language edition is currently imported for Hymn 7 only and carries line-level CTS URNs in the runtime corpus.