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//- meta
	slug: "hymns/titans"
	lang: en
	title: "Orphic Hymn to the Titans"
	pageCreated: "2026-06-03"

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

block navbar
	ul
		li.nav-arrow.nav-arrow-left: a(href="/hymns/artemis") #[span.dingbat ☙] #[b(lang="grc") Αρτεμιδος] #[i To Artemis]
		li.nav-current ΛΖʹ · XXXVII
		li.nav-arrow.nav-arrow-right: a(href="/hymns/couretes") #[i To the Couretes] #[b(lang="grc") Κουρητων] #[span.dingbat ❧]

block ancient-pic
	img(src="/hymns/thumbnails/titans-ancient.jpg" alt="Ancient relief of the Titans")

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

block greek
	h1 Τιτάνων
	div.offering Θυμίαμα λίβανον
	p.hymn-greek
		:format-hymn
			Τιτῆνες, Γαίης τε καὶ Οὐρανοῦ ἀγλαὰ τέκνα,
			ἡμετέρων πρόγονοι πατέρων, γαίης ὑπένερθεν
			οἴκοις Ταρταρίοισι μυχῷ χθονὸς ἐνναίοντες,
			ἀρχαὶ καὶ πηγαὶ πάντων θνητῶν πολυμόχθων,
			εἰναλίων, πτηνῶν τε καὶ οἳ χθόνα ναιετάουσιν·
			ἐξ Ὑμέων γὰρ πᾶσα πέλει γενεὴ κατὰ κόσμον.
			Ὑμᾶς κικλήσκω μῆνιν χαλεπὴν ἀποπέμπειν,
			εἴ τις ἀπὸ χθονίων προγόνων οἴκοισι πελάσθη. 

block english
	h1 To the Titans#[+sn(1)]
	div.offering The fumigation from frankincense
	p.hymn-english O Mighty Titans, who from heav’n and earth#[br]derive Your noble and illustrious birth,#[br]our fathers’ fires, in #[span.theonym(greek="Tartaros") Tartarus] profound#[br]who dwell, deep merg’d beneath the solid ground:#[br]fountains and principles, from whom began#[br]th’ afflicted, miserable, race of man:#[br]who not alone in earth’s retreats abide,#[br]but in the ocean and the air reside;#[br]since ev’ry species from Your nature flows,#[br]which all prolific, nothing barren knows:#[br]avert Your rage, if from th’ infernal seats#[br]one of Your tribe should visit our retreats.
	+sn(1)
		p See note to #[a(href="/hymns/athena") Hymn #[+sc("XXXII")] to #[span.theonym(greek="Athena") Pallas]].