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The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
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VII. To the Stars · Lines 1–7
Ancient Greek
p. 34VII. ΑΣΤΡΩΝ
θυμίαμα ἀρώματα
Ἄστρων οὐρανίων ἱερὸν σέλας ἐκπροκαλοῦμαι,
εὐιέροις φωνῇσι κικλήσκων δαίμονας ἁγνούς.
Ἀστέρες οὐράνιοι, Νυκτὸς φίλα τέκνα μελαίνης,
ἐγκυκλίοις δίνῃσι πυριρρόθιοι κυκλέοντες,
ἀνταυγεῖς, πυρόεντες, ἀεί, γενετῆρες ἁπάντων,
μοιρίδιοι, πάσης μοίρης σημάντορες ὄντες,
θνητῶν ἀνθρώπων θείην διέποντες ἀταρπόν,
The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns: VII. To the Stars
p. 35VII. To the Stars
fumigation from aromatics
The sacred radiance of the heavenly Stars I call forth,
summoning with well-hallowed voices the holy daimones.
Stars of heaven, dear children of black Nyx,
wheeling in circling eddies, rushing with fire,
flashing back light, fiery, always, begetters of all things,
of destiny, being the signifiers of every allotment,
ordering the divine path of mortal men,
Socrates
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The eighty-eight Orphic Hymns and the Prayer to Musaeus, in Ancient Greek and English, with the supplied critical apparatus, explanatory notes, introduction, glossary and editorial matter.
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Orphic Hymns, attributed to Orpheus. Greek text after Eugenius Abel, Orphica (Leipzig and Prague, 1885), pages 57–102.
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