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//- meta
	slug: "hymns/cronos"
	lang: en
	title: "Orphic Hymn to Cronos"
	pageCreated: "2026-04-18"

extends ../../../views/hymns/hymnsheet.pug

block navbar
	ul
		li.nav-arrow.nav-arrow-left: a(href="/hymns/heracles") #[span.dingbat ☙] #[b(lang="grc") Ηρακλεους] #[i To Heracles]
		li.nav-current ΙΓʹ · XIII
		li.nav-arrow.nav-arrow-right: a(href="/hymns/rhea") #[i To Rhea] #[b(lang="grc") Ρεας] #[span.dingbat ❧]

block ancient-pic
	img(src="/hymns/thumbnails/cronos-ancient.jpg" alt="Ancient fresco of Cronos")

block modern-pic
	img(src="/hymns/thumbnails/cronos-modern.jpg" alt="Modern painting of Cronos")

block greek
	h1 Κρόνου
	div.offering Θυμίαμα στύρακα
	p.hymn-greek
		:format-hymn
			Ἀϊθαλές, μακάρων τε Θεῶν πάτερ ἠδὲ καὶ ἀνδρῶν,
			ποικιλόβουλ’, ἀμίαντε, μεγασθενές, ἄλκιμε Τιτάν·
			ὃς δαπανᾷς μὲν ἅπαντα καὶ αὔξεις ἔμπαλιν αὐτός·
			δεσμοὺς ἀρρήκτους ὃς ἔχεις κατ’ ἀπείρονα κόσμον,
			αἰῶνος Κρόνε παγγενέτορ, Κρόνε ποικιλόμυθε,
			γαίης τε βλάστημα καὶ οὐρανοῦ ἀστερόεντος,
			γέννα, φυῆς, μείωσι, Ῥέας πόσι, σεμνὲ προμηθεῦ,
			ὃς ναίεις κατὰ πάντα μέρη κόσμοιο, γενάρχα,
			ἀγκυλομήτα, φέριστε· κλύων ἱκετηρίδα φωνὴν
			πέμποις εὐόλβου βιότου τέλος αἰὲν ἄμεμπτον. 

block english
	h1 To Cronos
	div.offering The fumigation from storax
	p.hymn-english Ætherial father, mighty Titan#[+sn(1)], hear, #[br]great fire of Gods and men, whom all revere:#[br]endowed with various council, pure and strong,#[br]to whom perfection and decrease belong.#[br]Consum’d by Thee all forms that hourly die,#[br]by Thee restor’d, their former place supply;#[br]the world immense in everlasting chains,#[br]strong and ineffable Thy pow’r contains#[br]father of vast eternity, divine,#[br]O mighty #[span.theonym(greek="Cronos") Saturn], various speech is thine:#[br]blossom of earth and of the starry skies,#[br]husband of Rhea, and Prometheus wife.#[br]Obstetric Nature, venerable root,#[br]from which the various forms of being shoot;#[br]no parts peculiar can Thy pow’r enclose,#[br]diffus’d thro’ all, from which the world arose,#[br]O, best of beings, of a subtle mind,#[br]propitious hear to holy pray’rs inclin’d;#[br]the sacred rites benevolent attend,#[br]And grant a blameless life, a blessed end.
	+sn(1)
		p See the notes to #[a(href="/hymns/heracles") the preceding hymn].