From the book
The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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- of the threshing floor
Meaning
Demeter is ἁλωαῖος beside seed, heaping and green-fruit descriptions at XL.5. The compound places her amid agricultural operations, specifically the threshing-floor setting. It is an epithet in the sequence of addresses, not an additional personal name of a goddess.
Places to read
- Hymn XL · Line 5Read the word in its hymn.
Attested forms
ἀλωαίη
Occurrence inventory
1 in total. XL.5