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To Boreas  #HymnsOfOrpheus

4/7/2014

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Translated by Catherine Proppe, April 7, 2014


This is a hopeful hymn, acknowledging the cold winter wind and how it clears the way for Spring blooms.






80. Βορέου, θυμίαμα λίβανον.

Boreas[1]
Divine connection/incense: libanon (frankincense)


Χειμερίοις αὔραισι δονῶν βαθὺν ἠέρα κόσμου, 

Winter’s cold winds agitate profoundly Hera’s[2] cosmos,


κρυμοπαγὴς Βορέα, χιονώδεος ἔλθ’ ἀπὸ Θράικης 

Ice-cold frost covers Earth, Boreas’ snow descends from Thrace[3]


λῦέ τε παννέφελον στάσιν ἠέρος ὑγροκελεύθου

Releasing, too, all Nepheles’[4] steadfast aerial hydro-journey,


ῥιπίζων ἰκμάσιν νοτεραῖς ὀμβρηγενὲς ὕδωρ,

Fanning moist, damp, rain-born water,


αἴθρια πάντα τιθείς, θαλερόμματον αἰθέρα τεύχων 

Clearing in every direction, setting blooming ethereal creations


ἀκτίνες ὣς λάμπουσιν ἐπὶ χθονὸς ἠελίοιο. 

Shining forth from the lamp of earth’s Helios[5]. 

 
[1] Boreas is the immortal God of the cold North Wind. Just as depth to the base is conveyed by bathu- (βαθὺ-), so the deepest temperature of flowing air is conveyed by Borea (Βορέα), literally “base entity outflow.”


[2] Hera is the immortal Goddess of the Air. (Empedocles, Physics (7(6).2-3) and Poeta Philosophus (6.1).)


[3] Thrace is north of Greece.


[4] Nephele are the immortal Goddesses of the Clouds.


[5] Helios is the immortal God of the Sun.


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