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.

:— Orphic Hymn 2, to Prothyraeia, as translated by Thomas Taylor, 1792.

An Orphic Hymn invoked Thanatos:

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The Orphic Hymn to Persephone identifies Praxidike as an epithet of Persephone: " Praxidike, subterranean queen.

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

Jacob Bryant | Jacob Bryant's Orphic Egg ( 1774 ) Robert Graves in his book The Greek Myths imaginatively reconstructs a Pelasgian creation myth involving Ophion as a serpent created by a supreme goddess called Eurynome dancing on the waves.

He is, however distinguished from his predecessors, whom he so admires, in making less frequent application of Orphic, Hermetic, Chaldean, and other Theologumena of the East ; partly in proceeding carefully and modestly in the explanation and criticism of particular points, and in striving with diligence to draw from the original sources a thorough knowledge of the older Greek philosophy.

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

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.

Nyx is also the first principle in the opening chorus of Aristophanes ' The Birds, which may be Orphic in inspiration.

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

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.

In this system we distinguish not only the asceticism of Pythagoras and the later mysticism of Plato, but also the influence of the Orphic mysteries.

* In the direction to which she stares in horror, another mural shows a young satyr being offered a bowl of wine by Silenus while behind him, another satyr holds up a frightening mask which the drinking satyr sees reflected in the bowl ( this may parallel the mirror into which young Dionysus stares in the Orphic rites ).

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

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 ").

This new Orphic tradition states that Nyx later gave the sceptre to her son Uranos before it passed to Cronus and then to Zeus, who retained it.

Much later, Friedrich Nietzsche would recognize in him the poet who first acknowledged the Orphic and Dionysian Greece of the mysteries, which he would fuse with the Pietism of his native Swabia in a highly original religious experience.

Recurring events like the transmigration of the souls related with morality, appear in the Pythagorean and Orphic beliefs, in some poems of Pindar, and especially in the work of Empedocles ( 5 th century BC ), who represents Ananke as the immemorial ordinance of men and gods.

Fifth-century Orphic cosmogony had a " Womb of Darkness " in which the Wind lay a Cosmic Egg whence Eros was hatched, who set the universe in motion.

The Orphic texts of the late period record a boukolos ( or " cowherd ") as an offerer of sacrifice, sayer of prayers, and hymn singer, who seems to have been the equivalent of a priest.

Thomas Taylor ( 15 May 1758-1 November 1835 ) was an English translator and Neoplatonist, the first to translate into English the complete works of Aristotle and of Plato, as well as the Orphic fragments.

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

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.

" His " Orphic Sayings ", published in The Dial, became famous for their hilarity as dense, pretentious, and meaningless.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.