Explained vocabulary

Idaean — Ἰδαῖος

Ἰδαῖος

Idaios

The Prayer invokes Idaean gods beside Curetes, Corybantes, and Cabeiri.

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The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns

Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026

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English renderings
Idaean

Meaning

The Prayer invokes Idaean gods beside Curetes, Corybantes, and Cabeiri. The adjective is geographical or cultic in force but does not itself list the group’s members. Unlike the explicit Phrygian location in XLIX.5, this bare adjective does not resolve which Ida is intended without further contextual evidence.

Places to read

  1. Prayer to Musaeus · Line 22Read the word in its hymn.

Attested forms

Ἰδαίους

Occurrence inventory

1 in total. Prayer.22