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The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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- Destroyer
Meaning
The Kouretes are both nourishers and destroyers at XXXVIII.14. The paired agent nouns make their opposing capacities explicit; the following lines describe anger against people and damage to lives and possessions. Destruction is therefore a real threatening possibility in the hymn, not merely an abstract opposite added for symmetry.
Places to read
- Hymn XXXVIII · Line 14Read the word in its hymn.
Attested forms
ὀλετῆρες
Occurrence inventory
1 in total. XXXVIII.14