Alcott's so-called " Orphic Sayings " were widely mocked for being silly and unintelligible ; Fuller herself disliked them but did not want to hurt Alcott's feelings.

A writer for the Boston Post referred to Alcott's " Orphic Sayings " as " a train of fifteen railroad cars with one passenger.

* editions of the Scriptores rei rusticae, of Quintilian, Claudian, Pliny the Younger, Horace and the Orphic poems ( published after his death )

The recently published Derveni papyrus allows Orphic mythology to be dated back to the 4th century BC, and it is probably even older.

This practise became archaic, but was revived by the nomadic healers of the Orphic Mysteries.

Gildas Hamel, drawing on the Book of Jonah and Greco-Roman sources — including Greek vases and the accounts of Apollonius of Rhodes, Gaius Valerius Flaccus and Orphic Argonautica — identifies a number of shared motifs, including the names of the heroes, the presence of a dove, the idea of " fleeing " like the wind and causing a storm, the attitude of the sailors, the presence of a sea-monster or dragon threatening the hero or swallowing him, and the form and the word used for the " gourd " ( kikayon ).

Pythagoras probably neither invented the doctrine nor imported it from Egypt, but made his reputation by bringing Orphic doctrine from North-Eastern Hellas to Magna Graecia and by instituting societies for its diffusion.

In the Orphic tradition, Typhon leads the Titans when they attack and kill Dionysus, just as Set is responsible for the murder of Osiris.

Phanes (, from, phainō, " I bring to light "), or Protogonos (, " First-born "), was the mystic primeval deity of procreation and the generation of new life, who was introduced into Greek mythology by the Orphic tradition ; other names for this Classical Greek Orphic concept included Ericapaeus ( " power ") and Metis (" thought ").

Plethon may also have been the source for Ficino's Orphic system of natural magic.

All religions in general use invoking prayers, liturgies, or hymns ; see for example the mantras in Hinduism and Buddhism, the Egyptian Coming Out by Day ( aka Book of the Dead ), the Orphic Hymns and the many texts, still preserved, written in cuneiform characters on clay tablets, addressed to Shamash, Ishtar, and other deities.

He has written for the Kronos Quartet: Voces Resonae ( 1984 ) and Fog Tropes II ( 1982 ) and for the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra: Orphic Memories ( 2006 ).

He wrote an appendix on the Orphic tablets for her 1903 book Prolegomena ; he later contributed to her Themis ( 1912 ).

Orphic painters cited analogies with music in their titles ; for example, Kupka ’ s Amorpha: Fugue in Two Colors ( 1912 ) and Francis Picabia ’ s abstract composition Dance at the Source ( 1912 ) and Wassily Kandinsky ’ s Über das Geistige in der Kunst ( 1912 ).

Instructions for the Netherworld: the Orphic Gold Tablets.

It has been suggested that the Orphic mysteries may have had their origins with the Cabeiri.

All these are themselves remnants of a more extensive literature, part of the syncretic, intellectualized spirituality of their era, a cultural movement that also included the Neoplatonic philosophy of the Greco-Roman mysteries and late Orphic and Pythagorean literature and influenced Gnostic forms of the Abrahamic religions.

Much of their mysticism concerning the soul seems inseparable from the Orphic tradition.

Together they surround the primal egg of solid matter ( Orphic egg ) in their constricting coils and split it into its constituent parts ( earth, heaven and sea ) and so they bring about the creation of the ordered universe.

They may not have always called their work Orphic, but the aesthetics and theories were the same.

The Synchromists Morgan Russell and Stanton Macdonald-Wright wrote their own manifestos in an attempt to distance themselves from the Orphism of Robert Delaunay, but their art at times inevitably appeared Orphic.

Beginning as a simple rite, it evolved quickly within Greek culture into a popular mystery religion, which absorbed a variety of similar cults ( and their gods ) in a typically Greek synthesis across its territories ; one late form was the Orphic Mysteries.

It yields a fragrance as Orphic as that of the pastilles of Malabar.

The Orphism ( religion ) | Orphic mysteries are used as an example of the false cults of Greek paganism in the Protrepticus.

* West, Martin Litchfield, The Orphic Poems, 1983.

* Arthur B. Evans, Jean Cocteau and his Films of Orphic Identity.

Another version, in the Homeric Hymn to Delian Apollo and in an Orphic hymn, states that Artemis was born before Apollo, on the island of Ortygia, and that she helped Leto cross the sea to Delos the next day to give birth there to Apollo.

As Platonism developed in the phases commonly called ' middle Platonism ' and neoplatonism, such writers as Plutarch, Porphyry, Proclus, Olympiodorus and Damascius wrote explicitly about the symbolic interpretation of traditional and Orphic myths.

The tenth-century Byzantine encyclopedia Suda introduces a goddess of a blessed afterlife assured to Orphic mystery initiates.

In the reformulation of Greek mythology expressed in the Orphic Hymns, Dionysus and Melinoe are separately called children of Zeus and Persephone.

The surname Protogonos, indicates a later Orphic influence.

He was also instructed in the " theurgic " Neoplatonism, as derived from the Orphic and Chaldean Oracles.

A 2nd century Roman sarcophagus shows the mythology and symbolism of the Orphic and Dionysiac Mystery schools.

The Orphic religion, which taught reincarnation, first appeared in Thrace in north-eastern Greece and Bulgaria, about the 6th century BC, organized itself into mystery schools at Eleusis and elsewhere, and produced a copious literature.

The dualism of sun / male / light and moon / female / darkness is found in many ( but not all ) late southern traditions in Europe that derive from Orphic and Gnostic philosophies.

By contrast, in the Orphic cosmogony the unaging Chronos produced Aether and Chaos and made a silvery egg in divine Aether.

Jean Cocteau's Orphée, a film central to his Orphic Trilogy, starred Jean Marais and was released in 1950.

The Orphic religion, which held it, first appeared in Thrace upon the semi-barbarous north-eastern frontier.

Silenus was described as the oldest, wisest and most drunken of the followers of Dionysus, and was said in Orphic hymns to be the young god's tutor.

In ancient Orphic sources and in the mystery schools, Tartarus is also the unbounded first-existing entity from which the Light and the cosmos are born.

In ancient Greek religion and myth, the obscure and ancient figure of Zagreus () was identified with the god Dionysus and was worshipped by followers of Orphism, whose late Orphic hymns invoke his name.

In the Orphic hymn to the Muses, it is Erato who charms the sight.