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The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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- Wave; waves
Meaning
Waves provide the inhabited and moving setting of Nereus, the Nereids, Poseidon, Leukothea, and dolphins. At XXII.4 they are explicitly broken on shores and rocks. A different use appears at XIX.18: Zeus is asked to cast his heavy anger into the sea’s waves, making the water a destination for danger to be diverted away from people.
Places to read
- Hymn XVII · Line 8Read the word in its hymn.
Attested forms
κῦμα; κύμασι; κύματα
Occurrence inventory
7 in total. XVII.8; XIX.18; XXII.4; XXIII.2; XXIV.3; XXIV.7; LXXIV.4