From the book
The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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- begetter
Meaning
Pan is the begetter of everything amid titles of universal growth (XI.10). Helios instead begets dawn on the right and night on the left (VIII.4). The second construction distributes his generative action between the opposed phases of the daily cycle.
Places to read
- Hymn VIII · Line 4Read the word in its hymn.
Attested forms
γενέτορ; γενέτωρ
Occurrence inventory
2 in total. VIII.4; XI.10