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The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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- originator, ancestral source
Meaning
Kronos is called originator while inhabiting every part of the cosmos (XIII.8). Notos is more specifically the originator of rain (LXXXII.3). The latter application shows that the title can describe the source of a natural process, not only an ancestor in a divine genealogy.
Places to read
- Hymn XIII · Line 8Read the word in its hymn.
Attested forms
γενάρχα
Occurrence inventory
2 in total. XIII.8; LXXXII.3