From the book
The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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- shoot; flourishing offspring
Meaning
Persephone, Dionysus, Adonis, and Asclepius are described through the image of a shoot; Artemis can be a beautiful shoot without a parent named in that phrase. When a genitive names Deo, Aphrodite, or Apollo, the growth-image expresses offspring or derivation. It remains more vivid than a bare genealogical label and should not be forced into literal vegetation.
Places to read
- Hymn XXIX · Line 5Read the word in its hymn.
Attested forms
θάλος
Occurrence inventory
6 in total. XXIX.5; XXXVI.11; L.3; LVI.4; LVI.8; LXVII.6