Cairetw se Afrodhta,

I must confess my noble Aphrodite that is more complicate than that! Onomacritus was considered as one of the followers of the Orphic tradition. He knew all about the cleansings rites (very familiar orphic rites), prophesy’s rituals and oracles etc. More or less he was “all and nothing”. He did not write down the hymns but he just gather them in one volume under the will of Peisistratus.

The hymns from the beginning were holy and used in the variety of the Orphic rituals! In the late antiquity, 2^nd and 3^rd century, the new-developed New-Platonists and their combined movement of philosophical and religious dogmas, considered the Orphic hymns as very powerful spells and they used them as that. Proclus is one of the last but known Neo-Platonists who used like I mention the hymns (see Marinou ProkloV).

For the modern-Greeks is completely satanic!! For the Hellenist, and not only, were and are hymns with immensely beauty in all aspects! Only by that they have something divine on them!

Yours,

Nikolaos Cleomenes