Eighty-seven Greek hymns from the Orphic mystery tradition, addressed to the Olympian gods, the chthonic powers, and the cosmos itself
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Tradition
Greek mystery tradition. The hymns transmit the Orphic theogony — Phanes, Night, the dismembered Dionysus — and were used in ritual invocation in late antiquity.
Translation
Thomas Taylor, *The Mystical Hymns of Orpheus*, 2nd ed. (London: Bertram Dobell, 1824; first ed. 1792). Public domain.
License
Public domain (pre-1929 English translation). Reproduced for educational and religious commentary.