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In the rest of the collection, there are several passages which indicate the work was written as though Orpheus was the composer: [21] Orphic Hymn 76 to the Muses mentions "mother Calliope", [22] and Orphic Hymn 24 to the Nereids refers to "mother Calliope and lord Apollo", alluding to the parentage of Orpheus (whose father was sometimes said ...
The Homeric Hymns (Ancient Greek: Ὁμηρικοὶ ὕμνοι, romanised: Homērikoì húmnoi) are a collection of thirty-three ancient Greek hymns and one epigram. [a] The hymns praise deities of the Greek pantheon and retell mythological stories, often involving a deity's birth, their acceptance among the gods on Mount Olympus, or the establishment of their cult.
Orphic mosaics were found in many late-Roman villas. Orphism (more rarely Orphicism; Ancient Greek: Ὀρφικά, romanized: Orphiká) is the name given to a set of religious beliefs and practices [1] originating in the ancient Greek and Hellenistic world, [2] associated with literature ascribed to the mythical poet Orpheus, who descended into the Greek underworld and returned.
Originally, Pandia may have been an epithet of Selene, [133] but by at least the time of the late Hymn to Selene, Pandia had become a daughter of Zeus and Selene. Pandia (or Pandia Selene) may have personified the full moon, [ 134 ] and an Athenian festival, called the Pandia , usually considered to be a festival for Zeus , [ 135 ] was perhaps ...
[10] For the Greeks, Orpheus was a founder and prophet of the so-called "Orphic" mysteries. [11] He was credited with the composition of a number of works, including several theogonies, the Orphic Hymns, [12] the Orphic Argonautica, [13] the Lithica [14] and the Hexameter poem. [15] Shrines containing purported relics of Orpheus were regarded ...
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 ]
Everybody knows the name of the first man to step foot on the moon, but how many have heard the story of the kid who walked there before him? Richard Linklater’s “Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age ...
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.