- thunderbolt,
turning them to ash. From
these ashes,
humanity is born. In
Orphic belief, this myth
describes humanity as
having a dual nature: body (Ancient...
- Gr****: Ζαγρεύς, romanized: Zagreus) was a god
sometimes identified with an
Orphic Dionysus, a son of Zeus and ****phone, who was
dismembered by the Titans...
-
several theogonies of
Orphic literature, in
which she is
often described as the
mother of Ur**** and Gaia. In the
earliest Orphic cosmogonies, she is the...
-
Erebus (Darkness) and Nyx (Night), and the
brother of
Hemera (Day). In
Orphic cosmogony Aether was the
offspring of
Chronos (Time), and the
brother of...
- The
Orphic Hymns are a
collection of eighty-seven
ancient Gr****
hymns addressed to
various deities,
which were
attributed in
antiquity to the mythical...
- painting. For the Gr****s,
Orpheus was a
founder and
prophet of the so-called "
Orphic" mysteries. He was
credited with the
composition of a
number of works, among...
- romanized: Mēlinóē
pronounced [mɛːlinóɛː]) is a
chthonic goddess invoked in one of the
Orphic Hymns (2nd or 3rd
centuries AD?), and
represented as a
bringer of nightmares...
-
point of
Orphic story", Linforth, p. 307 says it is "commonly
regarded as
essentially and
peculiarly Orphic and the very core of the
Orphic religion"...
- In
Orphic cosmogony Phanes /ˈfeɪˌniːz/ (Ancient Gr****: Φάνης, romanized: Phánēs,
genitive Φάνητος) or
Protogonos /proʊˈtɒɡənəs/ (Ancient Gr****: Πρωτογόνος...
- the
Orphic tradition, ****phone is said to be the
daughter of Zeus and his
mother Rhea, who
became Demeter after her
seduction by her son. The
Orphic ****phone...
