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The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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- Rain
Meaning
Rain appears among Zeus’s formidable storm forces, yet the Clouds and Notos are asked to send fruit-nourishing rains to mother earth. Hera is mother of rains. These contexts distinguish destructive storm intensity from the water needed for growth without requiring two different Greek rain-nouns.
Places to read
- Hymn XVI · Line 4Read the word in its hymn.
Attested forms
ὄμβροιο; ὄμβρους; ὄμβρων
Occurrence inventory
5 in total. XVI.4; XIX.5; XXI.7; LXXXII.3; LXXXII.7