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Roman mosaic of Orpheus, the mythical poet to whom the Orphic Hymns were attributed, from Palermo, 2nd century AD [32]. The collection's attribution to the mythical poet Orpheus is found in its title, "Orpheus to Musaeus", [33] which sits above the proem in the surviving manuscripts of the collection; [34] this proem, an address to the legendary poet Musaeus of Athens (a kind of address found ...
The Homeric Hymn 3 to Apollo is the oldest extant account of Leto's wandering and birth of her children, but it is only concerned with the birth of Apollo, and treats Artemis as an afterthought; in fact the hymn does not even state that Leto's children are twins, and they are given different birthplaces (he in Delos, she in Ortygia). [31]
Prothyraia's means 'at the door' or 'at the door-way', [2] and is used to denote a goddess who presides over the area around the entrance to a building. [3] Prothyraia is an epiclesis of the goddesses Eileithyia, Hecate, and Artemis; [2] Prothyraia is attested as an epithet of Artemis in a 2nd-century AD inscription discovered in Epidaurus. [4]
Amphitrite's offspring included seals [3] and dolphins. [4] She also bred sea monsters and her great waves crashed against the rocks, putting sailors at risk. [ 1 ] Poseidon and Amphitrite had a son, Triton , who was a merman, and a daughter, Rhodos (if this Rhodos was not actually fathered by Poseidon on Halia or was not the daughter of Asopus ...
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The following year, Apollo released his debut EP, Stereo, in May 2018. After he signed a deal with Warner Records in 2022, Apollo’s debut album, Ivory , was released in April of that year.
Phanes was a male god; in an original Orphic Hymn he is named as "Lord Priapos", [5] although others consider him androgynous. [ 1 ] Phanes was a deity of light and goodness, whose name meant "to bring light" or "to shine"; [ 6 ] [ 7 ] a first-born deity, he emerged from the abyss and gave birth to the universe. [ 7 ]
Melinoë is described in the invocation of the Orphic Hymn as κροκόπεπλος (krokopeplos), "clad in saffron" (see peplos), an epithet also used for Eos, the personification of dawn. [13] In the hymns, only two goddesses are described as krokopeplos, Melinoë and Hecate.