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10/21/2013

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This is a first-pass attempt to translate the Orphic Hymn to Rhea with the help of the Liddell-Scott Greek-English Lexicon.


14. Ῥέας, - Rea, Rhea, Goddess of the Root Elements

θυμίαμα - incense
ἀρώματα. - aromatic, spices

Πότνα - Potna, Queen
Ῥέα, - Rea, Rhea
θύγατερ - daughter
πολυμόρφου - of many- shaped
Πρωτογόνοιο, - Protogonus, bisexual Divinity of First Life

ἥτ’ - here then
ἐπὶ - upon
ταυροφόνων - bull (ταυρο) + slaughter/sacrifice (φόνων) 
ἱερότροχον - holy, sacred (ἱερό) + circling, wheel, circle (τροχον) 
ἅρμα - food; chariot; love
τιταίνεις, - stretch, draw at full stretch, pull

τυμπανόδουπε, - tympanum/drum (τυμπανό) + thud, heavy sound (δουπε) (stage directions for drum beat)
φιλοιστρομανές, - loving (φιλο) + Ister/Danube river, Istria (Croatia); -or- weaving/mast/anything set upright -or- history (ιστρο) + mania/porousness/passion/enthusiasm (μανές) ( perhaps loving whirling madness?(στρομανές)) (could be stage directions for whirling dance)
χαλκόκροτε - sounding or rattling with bronze instruments = bronze/copper (χαλκό) + rattling noise (κροτε) 
κούρη, - daughter, offspring, child

μῆτερ - mother
Ζηνὸς - of Zeus
ἄνακτος - ruler, king
Ὀλυμπίου, - of Olympos
αἰγιόχοιο, - aegean (αἰγι) + ox/foundation (όχοιο) 

πάντιμ', - all honored, all-honourable
ἀγλαόμορφε, - glorious shaped/formed
Κρόνου - of Kronos
σύλλεκτρε - partner of the bed, husband or wife, together in bed
μάκαιρα, - happy/blessed

οὔρεσιν - of the mountain, mountain-dwelling, with the mountains
ἣ - here
χαίρεις - charming, delighted
θνητῶν - mortals
τ' - too then
ὀλολύγμασι - loud cry of joy, esp. of women invoking a deity  
φρικτοῖς, - to be shuddered at, shudder inducing, awful, shudder in horror (more stage directions for some mega-wailing)

παμβασίλεια - Queen of All, Basis of All 
Ῥέα, - Rhea
πολεμόκλονε, - "raising the din of war" = war (πολεμό) + confused motion, turmoil, battle-rout, throng of spears (κλονε) 
ὀμβριμόθυμε, - raining -or- mighty (ὀμβριμό) + passion, spirit (θυμε)

ψευδομένη - pseudo, soul-of (ψευδο) + might, force (μένη)
σώτειρα, - savior
λυτηριάς, - delivering, loosing
ἀρχιγένεθλε· - arch-, chief, foundation of (ἀρχι) + generation, birth-giving, race, descent, offspring (γένεθλε) 

μήτηρ - mother 
μέν- strong, powerful 
τε - too then 
θεῶν - of Gods and Goddesses 
ἠδὲ - here directed
θνητῶν - of mortal 
ἀνθρώπων· - humans

ἐκ - essence come forth
σοῦ - thou
γὰρ - generate
καὶ - and
γαῖα - earth, Gaia, Goddess of Generative Earth 
καὶ - and 
οὐρανὸς - sky, Ouranos, God of Sky 
εὐρὺς - wide, broad, far-reaching = essence pure (εὐ) + flow (ρὺς) 
ὕπερθεν - above, over, upper

καὶ - and 
πόντος - potnos, ruler
πνοαί - breath, breeze, blast of air, wind (probably stage directions for wind)
τε -too then 
φιλόδρομε, - loving (φιλό) + the course, race (δρομε)
ἀερόμορφε· - air (ἀερό) + formed (μορφε)

ἐλθέ, - come
μάκαιρα - happy, blessed
θεά, - Goddess 
σωτήριος - savior
εὔφρονι - kindly, gracious, good natural disposition, of sound mind, reasonable = essence pure (εὔ) + intention, thought, wisdom, judgment, prudence (φρονι) 
βουλῆι, - counsel, Senate, advisor

εἰρήνην - Peace, Eirene, Goddess of Peace
κατάγουσα - pure (κατ) + august (άγουσα)
σὺν - together 
εὐόλβοις - "wealthy, prosperous" = essence pure (εὐ) whole (όλ) + basis/livelihood (βοις) 
κτεάτεσσιν, - possess (κτεά) + the four (roots) (τεσσιν) 

λύματα - cleanse, loosen impurities
καὶ - and 
κῆρας - defects; doom, death, plague, disease; heart, with all the heart; wax
πέμπουσ' - send forth, send away
ἐπὶ  - upon
τέρματα - the ends
γαίης. - of the earth, Gaia

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