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The supreme god of Orphism was Dionysos, and at the center of this religious faith was a cosmogony different from the one we learn from Hesiod’s Theogony . Orphism preached the simple idea that the world was born from an egg. This primordial egg hatched out the first god, Eros, who was later named Protogonos and Phanes and who was said to be both male and female. He then created the world. The Hesiodic succession of Sky, Kronos, and Zeus was retained. Appended to this was the story of the death of Dionysos at the hands of the Titans, who tore him to pieces and devoured him, and Dionysos’ eventual rebirth.
O zaman uyandı zihnim, aydınlandı zafere giden yol gözlerimin önünde. Sadece kaba güçle kazanılmazdı savaş. Zekâ çok daha üstündü kaba güçten ve öfkeden. Bitireceksem bu savaşı dostlarımı çoğaltmalı, düşmanlarımı azaltmalıydım. Ve bir kez daha hatırladım yaptığım iyilikleri. Bir kez daha sığındım merhametin ferasetine.
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In Orphic theogony, Nomos (Law) and Eusebeia (Piety) are said to have given birth to Justice.
Central to Orphism is the idea that the body is evil and the soul is divine. In fact, the body is a tomb which serves as a prison for the spiritual entity we call the soul. The material part of man, the body, is the evil inheritance of the Titans. The spiritual part, the soul, comes from Dionysos, an immortal god and the son of Zeus. It is obvious that the Homeric concept of the living body as the man himself and of the soul as a pale lifeless shadow of him is completely inverted in Orphism.
Hesiod’s gods are still with us, not as subjects to be worshipped and appeased through sacrifice, but as enduring motives that govern and disrupt our lives.
