From the book
The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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- irresistible; fiercely unmasterable
Meaning
Hekate as queen and Zeus’s thunderbolt both receive this formidable epithet. It marks power that resists being checked or opposed, whether embodied in a deity or her fellow god’s weapon. The shared adjective does not require identical bodily imagery in the two passages.
Places to read
- Hymn I · Line 5Read the word in its hymn.
Attested forms
ἀμαιμάκετον
Occurrence inventory
2 in total. I.5; XIX.11