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//- meta
	slug: "hymns/nereids"
	lang: en
	title: "Orphic Hymn to the Nereids"
	pageCreated: "2026-04-21"

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

block navbar
	ul
		li.nav-arrow.nav-arrow-left: a(href="/hymns/nereus") #[span.dingbat ☙] #[b(lang="grc") Νηρεως] #[i To Nereus]
		li.nav-current ΚΔʹ · XXIV
		li.nav-arrow.nav-arrow-right: a(href="/hymns/proteus") #[i To Proteus] #[b(lang="grc") Πρωτεως] #[span.dingbat ❧]

block ancient-pic
	img(src="/hymns/thumbnails/nereids-ancient.jpg" alt="Ancient pottery of the Nereids")

block modern-pic
	img(src="/hymns/thumbnails/nereids-modern.jpg" alt="Modern painting of the Nereids")

block greek
	h1 Νηρηίδων
	div.offering Θυμίαμα ἀρώματα
	p.hymn-greek
		:format-hymn
			Νηρέος εἰναλίου νύμφαι καλυκώπιδες, ἁγναί,
			φρικαλέαι, βύθιαι, χοροπαίγμονες, ὑγροκέλευθοι,
			πεντήκοντα κόραι περὶ κύμασι βακχεύουσαι,
			Τριτώνων ἐπ’ ὄχοισιν ἀγαλλόμεναι περὶ νῶτα
			θηροτύποις μορφαῖς, ὧν βόσκει σώματα πόντος·
			ἄλλοι θ’ οἳ ναίουσι βυθόν, Τριτώνιον οἶδμα,
			ὑδρόδομοι, σκιρτηταί, ἑλισσόμενοι περὶ κῦμα,
			ποντοπλάνοι δελφῖνες, ἁλιρρόθιοι, κυαναυγεῖς·
			ὑμᾶς κικλήσκω πέμπειν μύσταις πολὺν ὄλβον·
			ὑμεῖς γὰρ πρῶται τελετὴν ἀνεδείξατε σεμνὴν
			εὐιέρου Βάκχοιο καὶ ἁγνῆς Φερσεφονείης,
			Καλλιόπῃ σὺν μητρὶ καὶ Ἀπόλλωνι ἄνακτι.

block english
	h1 To the Nereids
	div.offering The fumigation from aromatics
	p.hymn-english Daughters of Nereus, resident in caves#[br]merg’d deep in Ocean, sporting thro’ the waves;#[br]fanatic fifty nymphs, who thro’ the main#[br]delight to follow in the Triton’s train,#[br]rejoicing close behind their cars to keep;#[br]whose forms half wild, are nourish’d by the deep,#[br]with other nymphs of different degree#[br]leaping and wand’ring thro’ the liquid sea:#[br]bright, wat’ry dolphins, sonorous and gay,#[br]well pleas’d to sport with Bacchanalian play;#[br]nymphs beauteous-ey’d, whom sacrifice delights,#[br]send rich abundance on our mystic rites;#[br]for You at first disclos’d the rites divine,#[br]of holy #[span.theonym(greek="Bacchos") Bacchus] and of Proserpine,#[br]of fair Calliope from whom i spring,#[br]and of #[span.theonym(greek="Apollon") Apollo] bright, the Muses’ king.