NEW! ORPHIC HYMNS GRIMOIRE and MYSTAI: DANCING OUT THE MYSTERIES OF DIONYSOS ORPHIC HYMNS GRIMOIRE by Sara Leanne Mastros Mastros Publishing Hardcover With Color Illustrations $79.95 Black & White Paperback $39.95 Orpheus, the famed oracle-orator hero of Greece, began to teach a new religion at the dawn of the Archaic Age. Deeply rooted in ancient paganism and mystery traditions, Orphism taught a doctrine of peace-seeking, reincarnation, universal brotherhood, and ecstatic liberation. The followers, like their leader, worshiped their gods with poetry and song. Eighty-eight of these ancient hymns have survived to the present day, and are called The Orphic Hymns. They've been translated into English many times, most familiarly by the Neo-Classicist Thomas Taylor in 1792. Sara Mastros’s stunning new translations render them in modern English in rhymed couplets suitable for both oration and singing. Orphic Hymns Grimoire is a guide ...
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