From the book
The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
Browse this book’s lexicon →- English renderings
- mother, female begetter
Meaning
The title specifies Persephone’s relation to the Eumenides (XXIX.6) and Night’s to gods and humans (III.1). Aphrodite receives it more generally as a generative goddess (LV.2). The Charites are mothers of gladness (LX.4), showing that the noun also expresses production of an experience rather than literal offspring.
Places to read
- Hymn III · Line 1Read the word in its hymn.
Attested forms
γενέτειρα; γενέτειραι; γενέτειραν
Occurrence inventory
4 in total. III.1; XXIX.6; LV.2; LX.4