orphic in a sentence

Examples

1. Later in the Orphic cosmogony, first came Chronos, at the very beginning of time.
2. In the Orphic tradition, Dionysus-Protogonos-Phanes is a dying and rising god.
3. The Orphic cosmogony is bizarre, and quite unlike the creation sagas offered by Homer and Hesiod.
4. Some of his first poetic work would be written here, and later included in Orphic Songs.
5. A 2nd-century Roman sarcophagus shows the mythology and symbolism of the Orphic and Dionysiac Mystery schools.
6. A lost epic, " Orphic narratives survive, they show interesting differences from the Hesiodic tradition.
7. The Orphic Hymn to Persephone identifies Praxidike as an epithet of Persephone : " Praxidike, subterranean queen.
8. Their lyrics are drawn from Orphic and Homeric hymns and Sappho's poems for Zeus and Hekate.
9. The Orphic Persephone is further said to have become by Zeus the mother of Dionysus, Iacchus, Zagreus,
10. He was also instructed in the " theurgic " Neoplatonism, as derived from the Orphic and Chaldean Oracles.