Orphic Tablets and Hymns

Essential Quotes

“A I am dry with thirst and am perishing. / B Come, drink, I pray, from the ever-flowing spring on the right, where the cypress is. Who are you, and whence? / A I am the son of Earth and starry Heaven.”

“I come from the pure, O pure Queen of the earthly ones, Euclês, Eubouleus, and ye other immortal gods! I too claim to be of your blessed race, but Fate and other immortal gods conquered me, (and sent) the star-smiting thunder.”

“Happy and blessed one, you shall be a god instead of a mortal.”

“O Mighty Titans, who from heav’n and earth / Derive your noble and illustrious birth, / Our fathers fires, in Tartarus profound / Who dwell, deep merg’d beneath the solid ground: / Fountains and principles, from whom began / Th’ afflicted, miserable, race of man.”