From the book
The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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- bed-partner; consort
Meaning
Rhea is Kronos’s bed-partner, Hera and Mnemosyne are Zeus’s, and Health is Asklepios’s (XIV.5; XVI.2; LXXVII.1; LXVII.7). The relation is explicit in each clause, though the construction varies. It describes partnership in the hymn, not by itself a reconstructed historical marriage ceremony.
Places to read
- Hymn XIV · Line 5Read the word in its hymn.
Attested forms
σύλλεκτρε; σύλλεκτρον
Occurrence inventory
4 in total. XIV.5; XVI.2; LXVII.7; LXXVII.1