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

These inscriptions may have been connected with Orphic poetry ( see Zuntz, 1971 ).

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.

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.

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

Trophonios has been of interest to classical scholars because the rivers of Lethe and Mnemosyne have close parallels with the Myth of Er at the end of Plato's Republic, with a series of Orphic funerary inscriptions on gold leaves, and with several passages about Memory and forgetting in Hesiod's Theogony.

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.

2008 issues followed with The Orphic Mysteries and the Delphi, while 2009 issues covered The Pythagoreans and the Eleusinian Mysteries.

She appears as a serpentine being, and marks the beginning of the cosmos, along with Chronos, in the Orphic cosmogony.

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.

Orphic cosmogony was merged with biblical notions ( Tehom ) in Christian belief and inherited by alchemy and Renaissance magic.

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

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.

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.

In Orphic tradition, Persephone was the mother of Zagreus ( Dionysus ) by Zeus ; in the Iliad, Persephone's consort Hades, king of the underworld, is called Zeus Katachthonios, " Underground Zeus ".

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 ").

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

There are two Orphic stories of the rebirth of Dionysus, in one of which it is the heart of Dionysus that is implanted into the thigh of Zeus ; the other where he has impregnated the mortal woman Semele resulting in Dionysus's literal rebirth.

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.

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

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

Instructions for the Netherworld: the Orphic Gold Tablets.

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

For example, the first ten verses of the Works and Days may have been borrowed from an Orphic hymn to Zeus ( they were recognised as not the work of Hesiod by critics as ancient as Pausanias ).

The Orphic metaphor thus represented the artist ’ s power to create new structures and color harmonies, in an innovative creative process that combined to form a sensuous experience.

Orphism or Orphic Cubism, a term coined by the French poet Guillaume Apollinaire in 1912, was an offshoot of Cubism that focused on pure abstraction and bright colors, influenced by Fauvism, theoretical writings of Paul Signac, Charles Henry and the dye chemist Eugène Chevreul.

Artists intermittently referred to as Orphists by Apollinaire, such as Léger, Picabia, Duchamp and Picasso, independently created new categories that could hardly be classified as Orphic.

He was a pioneer and co-founder of the early phases of the abstract art movement and Orphic cubism ( Orphism ).

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.

They followed the Orphic traditions and practices to purify the soul but at the same time they suggested a deeper idea of what such a purification might be.

[...] An Orphic painter's works should convey an untroubled aesthetic pleasure, but at the same time a meaningful structure and sublime significance.

Poetry containing distinctly Orphic beliefs has been traced back to the 6th century BC or at least 5th century BC, and graffiti of the 5th century BC apparently refers to " Orphics ".

This film is the central part of Cocteau's Orphic Trilogy, which consists of The Blood of a Poet ( 1930 ), Orpheus ( 1950 ) and Testament of Orpheus ( 1960 ).

These themes would become central to the later Orphic manifestations of Dionysianism that would influence early Christianity ( according to Roman commentators, but denounced as a devilish mockery of Christ by Justin Martyr ).

* 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 ).