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Orphism (more
rarely Orphicism;
Ancient Gr****: Ὀρφικά, romanized: Orphiká) is the name
given to a set of
religious beliefs and
practices originating in...
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Zagreus (‹See Tfd›Gr****: Ζαγρεύς) was a god
sometimes identified with an
Orphic Dionysus, a son of Zeus and ****phone, who was
dismembered by the Titans...
- The
Orphic Hymns are a
collection of eighty-seven
ancient Gr****
hymns addressed to
various deities,
which are
among the few
extant works of
Orphic literature...
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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...
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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...
- so-called "
Orphic" mysteries. He was
credited with the
composition of a
number of works,
including several theogonies, the
Orphic Hymns, the
Orphic Argonautica...
- The
Orphic Trilogy is a
series of
three French films written and
directed by Jean Cocteau: The
Blood of a Poet, or Le sang d'un poète, 1930 Orpheus, or...
- The
Orphic Argonautica or
Argonautica Orphica (‹See Tfd›Gr****: Ὀρφέως Ἀργοναυτικά) is a Gr**** epic poem
dating from the 4th
century CE. It is narrated...
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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 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...
