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The New Orphic Review Vol.5 No.1 2002; International Poetry Review Vol.28 No.1 2002 USA; White Wall Review Is. 26 2002; Fire Is.19 2003 England; Oxford Anthology of Canadian Native Literature in English; 3rd Edition 2005; Ascent Aspirations Magazine Vol.4 No.9 2005 (ezine) The Antigonish Review #145 2006; Tower Poetry Vol.56 No.1 2007
Orphic mosaics were found in many late-Roman villas. Orphism is the name given to a set of religious beliefs and practices [ 1 ] originating in the ancient Greek and Hellenistic world, [ 2 ] associated with literature ascribed to the mythical poet Orpheus , who descended into the Greek underworld and returned.
The Orphic voice: poetry and natural history. New York: Harper & Row. ISBN 0-06-131595-8. OCLC 1866498. Yoder, R. A. Emerson and the Orphic Poet in America. University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-36530-5. OCLC 1158488462. Ashe, Geoffrey (1999). The book of prophecy: from ancient Greece to the millennium. London: Blandford. ISBN 0-7137-2737-3.
This new Orphic tradition states that Phanes passed the sceptre to Nyx; Nyx later gave the sceptre to her son Ouranos; Cronus seized the sceptre from his father Ouranos; and finally, the sceptre held by Cronus was seized by Zeus, who holds it at present. Some Orphic myths suggest that Zeus intends to pass the sceptre to Dionysus.
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Jacob Bryant's Orphic Egg (1774). The cosmic egg, world egg or mundane egg is a mythological motif found in the cosmogonies of many cultures and civilizations, including in Proto-Indo-European mythology. [1]
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Initiates worshipped him in the Dionysian Mysteries, which were comparable to and linked with the Orphic Mysteries, and may have influenced Gnosticism. Orpheus was said to have invented the Mysteries of Dionysus. [1] It is possible that water divination was an important aspect of worship within the cult. [2]