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The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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- Dawn; morning light
Meaning
Dawn is directly addressed in LXXVIII.2 as bright and reddening through the world. Helios is her begetter in VIII.4; Heracles bears dawn and black night around his head in XII.11. The latter is cosmic imagery rather than a second narrative of Dawn’s birth. The heading’s name and verse’s vocative belong to the same goddess.
Places to read
- Hymn VIII · Line 4Read the word in its hymn.
Attested forms
Ἠοῖ; ἠοῦς; ἠῶ
Occurrence inventory
3 in total. VIII.4; XII.11; LXXVIII.2
Heading and incense rubric evidence
ΗΟΥΣ · LXXVIII.heading. LXXVIII. ΗΟΥΣ
Local sense
Dawn as the hymn's divine recipient