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//- meta
	slug: "hymns/dionysos"
	lang: en
	title: "Orphic Hymn to Dionysos"
	pageCreated: "2026-04-23"

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

block navbar
	ul
		li.nav-arrow.nav-arrow-left: a(href="/hymns/persephone") #[span.dingbat ☙] #[b(lang="grc") Υμνος Φερσεφονης] #[i To Persephone]
		li.nav-current Λʹ · XXX
		li.nav-arrow.nav-arrow-right: a(href="/hymns/hymnos-coureton") #[i Hymn to the Couretes] #[b(lang="grc") Υμνος Κουρητων] #[span.dingbat ❧]

block ancient-pic
	img(src="/hymns/thumbnails/dionysos-ancient.jpg" alt="Ancient pottery of Dionysos")

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

block greek
	h1 Διονύσου
	div.offering Θυμίαμα στύρακα
	p.hymn-greek
		:format-hymn
			Κικλήσκω Διόνυσον ἐρίβρομον, εὐαστῆρα,
			πρωτόγονον, διφυῆ, τρίγονον, Βακχεῖον ἄνακτα,
			ἄγριον, ἄρρητον, κρύφιον, δικέρωτα, δίμορφον,
			κισσόβρυον, ταυρωπόν, ἀρήιον, εὔιον, ἁγνόν,
			ὠμάδιον, τριετῆ, βοτρυοτρόφον, ἐρνεσίπεπλον.
			Εὐβουλεῦ, πολύβουλε, Διὸς καὶ Φερσεφονείης
			ἀρρήτοις λέκτροισι τεκνωθείς, ἄμβροτε Δαῖμον·
			κλῦθι, μάκαρ φωνῆς, ἡδὺς δ’ ἐπίπνευσον ἀμεμφής,
			εὐμενὲς ἦτορ ἔχων, σὺν ἐυζώνοισι τιθήναις.

block english
	h1 To Dionyſos
	div.offering The fumigation from storax
	p.hymn-english #[span.theonym(greek="Dionysos") Bacchus] i call, loud-sounding and divine,#[br]fanatic God, a two-fold shape is Thine:#[br]Thy various names and attributes i sing,#[br]O, first-born#[+sn(1)], thrice begotten, Bacchic king:#[br]rural, ineffable, two-form’d, obscure,#[br]two-horn’d, with ivy crown’d, #[i euion], pure.#[br]Bull-fac’d, and martial, bearer of the vine,#[br]endowed with counsel prudent and divine:#[br]triennial, whom the leaves of vines adorn,#[br]of #[span.theonym(greek="Zeus") Jove] and #[span.theonym(greek="Persephone") Proserpine], occultly born.#[br]Immortal Dæmon, hear my suppliant voice,#[br]give me in blameless plenty to rejoice;#[br]and listen gracious to my mystic pray’r,#[br]surrounded with Thy choir of nurses fair.
	+sn(1)
		p See the notes to #[a(href="/hymns/protogonos") Hymn #[+sc("VI")] to #[span.theonym(greek="Protogonos") Protogonus]].