Author: * Nikolaos Cleomenes -
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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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