Orfik İlahiler: Protogonos, İlk Doğan ve Yumurtadan Çıkan Işık

V. TO PROTOGONUS, Or the FIRST-BORN. The Fumigation from Myrrh. O Mighty first-begotten, hear my pray'r, Two-fold, egg-born, and wand'ring thro' the air, Bull-roarer, glorying in thy golden wings, From whom the race of Gods and mortals springs. Ericapaeus, celebrated pow'r, Ineffable, occult, all shining flow'r. From eyes obscure thou wip'st the gloom of night, All-spreading splendour, pure and holy light; Hence Phanes call'd, the glory of the sky, On waving pinions thro' the world you fly. Priapus, dark-ey'd splendour, thee I sing, Genial, all-prudent, ever-blessed king, With joyful aspect on our rights divine And holy sacrifice propitious shine. Now this first and secret genera of the Gods is no other than all the demiurgical and intellectual ideas, considered as proceeding to the production of the sensible World, from their occult subsistence in Aether and Chaos, whose mutual connection Orpheus represents under the symbol of an egg: upon the exclusion of which egg, by Night considered as a principle, the God Phanes came forth, who is hence denominated Protogonus.