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The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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- Deo, Demeter
Meaning
Deo is Demeter’s alternate name, directly invoked as all-mother in XL.1 and named as Persephone’s source in XXIX.5. Her purpose governs bodily change in XXXIX.7; her works replace armed force in LXV.8. The same form Δηοῖ is vocative in XL.1 but dative after with in LI.16, where she accompanies Bakchos and the Nymphs.
Places to read
- Hymn XXIII · Line 5Read the word in its hymn.
Attested forms
Δηοῖ; Δηοῦς
Occurrence inventory
6 in total. XXIII.5; XXIX.5; XXXIX.7; XL.1; LI.16; LXV.8