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The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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- Cloud
Meaning
The clouds are invoked as airy, fruit-nourishing powers in XXI. Notos brings moist, rain-producing clouds in LXXXII, while dust raised by the Kouretes reaches the clouds at XXXVIII.12. The last gives the word a height-setting function rather than making those clouds themselves an offering or a deity in direct address.
Places to read
- Hymn XXI · Line 1Read the word in its hymn.
Attested forms
νεφέλαι; νεφέλαις; νεφέλας
Occurrence inventory
4 in total. XXI.1; XXXVIII.12; LXXXII.3; LXXXII.5