Orphic Hymns

Orphic tradition

Hymn 8 | Primary edition: Greek source text

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9.1	Primary Κλῦθι, θεὰ βασίλεια, φαεσφόρε, δῖα Σελήνη, Permalink
9.2	Primary ταυρόκερως Μήνη, νυκτιδρόμε, ἠεροφοῖτι, Permalink
9.3	Primary ἐννυχίη, δαιδοῦχε, κόρη, εὐάστερε, Μήνη, Permalink
9.4	Primary αὐξομένη καὶ λειπομένη, θῆλύς τε καὶ ἄρσην, Permalink
9.5	Primary αὐγήτειρα, φίλιππε, χρόνου μῆτερ, φερέκαρπε, Permalink
9.6	Primary ἠλεκτρίς, βαρύθυμε, καταυγάστειρα, λοχείη, Permalink
9.7	Primary πανδερκής, φιλάγρυπνε, καλοῖς ἄστροισι βρύουσα, Permalink
9.8	Primary ἡσυχίῃ χαίρουσα καὶ εὐφρόνῃ ὀλβιομοίρῳ, Permalink
9.9	Primary λαμπετίη, χαριδῶτι, τελεσφόρε, νυκτὸς ἄγαλμα, Permalink
9.10	Primary ἀστράρχη, τανύπεπλ’, ἑλικοδρόμε, πάνσοφε κούρη, Permalink
9.11	Primary ἐλθέ, μάκαιρ’, εὔφρων, εὐάστερε, φέγγεϊ τῷ σῷ Permalink
9.12	Primary λαμπομένη, σῴζουσα νέους ἱκέτας σέο, κούρη. 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/Σελήνης :: pages 76,77 :: Abel hymn 9

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