There’s Life After Death, An Attempt to Understand the Orphic Tradition
Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean
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Orphic Mythology - The Origin of Everything
In this interpretation, zeus becomes a kind of father, or better mother, of him. The way these kinds of human stories span time and continence is just, it's always so humbling. But shifting back to the durveni papyrus,. From here, more of the origin of everything is described. But again, it's so fragmentary that it's difficult to piece together what's actually happening. Instead, i'm going to tear myself away from that Durveni Papyrus because it is only the first of many alternate ideas of the theogony that exist in the orphic tradition. You can read more about it if you want.
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