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The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
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XIV. To Rhea · Lines 8–14
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p. 66XIV. ΡΕΑΣ
θυμίαμα ἀρώματα
ψευδομένη, σώτειρα, λυτηριάς, ἀρχιγένεθλε,
μῆτερ μέν τε θεῶν ἠδὲ θνητῶν ἀνθρώπων·
ἐκ σοῦ γὰρ καὶ γαῖα καὶ οὐρανὸς εὐρὺς ὕπερθε
καὶ πόντος πνοιαί τε· φιλόδρομος, ἠερόμορφε·
ἐλθέ, μάκαιρα θεά, σωτήριος εὔφρονι βουλῇ
εἰρήνην κατάγουσα σὺν εὐόλβοις κτεάτεσσι,
λύματα καὶ κῆρας πέμπουσ’ ἐπὶ τέρματα γαίης.
The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns: XIV. To Rhea
p. 67XIV. To Rhea
fumigation from aromatics
false-speaking, saviour, releaser, first of the line,
mother indeed of gods and of mortal men;
for from you come both earth and the wide heaven above
and the sea and the winds; lover of the running course, of airy form;
come, blessed goddess, saving with kindly counsel,
leading peace down with prosperous possessions,
sending defilements and dooms away to the ends of the earth.
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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