From the book
The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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- fatherless
Meaning
Nature is fatherless immediately beside self-fathering at X.10. The paired descriptions mark her origin as exceptional, rather than supply successive stages in a chronological birth narrative. Keeping both terms visible preserves the paradox of a power that is not derived from an ordinary father.
Places to read
- Hymn X · Line 10Read the word in its hymn.
Attested forms
ἀπάτωρ
Occurrence inventory
1 in total. X.10