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Definition of Orphic

Orphic
Orphic Or"phic, a. [L. Orphicus, Gr. ?.] Pertaining to Orpheus; Orphean; as, Orphic hymns.

Meaning of Orphic from wikipedia

- Orphism (more rarely Orphicism; Ancient Gr****: Ὀρφικά, romanized: Orphiká) is the name given to a set of religious beliefs and practices originating in...
- The Orphic Hymns are a collection of eighty-seven hymns addressed to various deities, and are among the few extant works of Orphic literature. They were...
- 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...
- 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...
- mythology, Zagreus (Gr****: Ζαγρεύς) was a god sometimes identified with an Orphic Dionysus, a son of Zeus and ****phone, who was dismembered by the Titans...
- so-called "Orphic" mysteries. He was credited with the composition of a number of works, including several theogonies, the Orphic Hymns, and the Orphic Argonautica...
- 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...
- 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 cosmogony Phanes /ˈfeɪˌniːz/ (Ancient Gr****: Φάνης, romanized: Phánēs, genitive Φάνητος) or Protogonos /proʊˈtɒɡənəs/ (Ancient Gr****: Πρωτογόνος...
- 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...