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    Author: * Nikolaos Cleomenes - 9 Posts on this thread out of 556 Posts sitewide.
    Date: Aug 11, 2003 - 12:49

    Cairetw,

    In the late of the fourth century Onomacritus scripted the Orphic Hymns. These texts were the main liturgical hymns for the Orphism mysteries and the Neo-Platonic philosophers. Full of power through its language derived by the Homeric dialect, the hymns have connection with the epic of Theognis and of the initial tragic composition, because they used names and calls of the divine, which were first witnessed in the Orphic Hymns:

    To Zeus as the Author of Lightning.
    The Fumigation from Frankincense and Manna.

    I call the mighty, holy, splendid light,
    Aerial, dreadful-sounding, fiery-bright ;
    Flaming, aerial-light, with angry voice,
    Lightning thro’ lucid clouds with horrid noise.
    Untam’d, to whom resentments dire belong,                                 5
    Pure, holy pow’r, all-parent,  great and strong :
    Come, and benevolent these rites attend,
    And grant my days a peaceful, blessed end.


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