| 21. | Later in the Orphic cosmogony, first came Chronos, at the very beginning of time.
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| 22. | In the Orphic tradition, Dionysus-Protogonos-Phanes is a dying and rising god.
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| 23. | The Orphic cosmogony is bizarre, and quite unlike the creation sagas offered by Homer and Hesiod.
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| 24. | Some of his first poetic work would be written here, and later included in Orphic Songs.
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| 25. | A 2nd-century Roman sarcophagus shows the mythology and symbolism of the Orphic and Dionysiac Mystery schools.
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| 26. | A lost epic, " Orphic narratives survive, they show interesting differences from the Hesiodic tradition.
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| 27. | The Orphic Hymn to Persephone identifies Praxidike as an epithet of Persephone : " Praxidike, subterranean queen.
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| 28. | Their lyrics are drawn from Orphic and Homeric hymns and Sappho's poems for Zeus and Hekate.
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| 29. | The Orphic Persephone is further said to have become by Zeus the mother of Dionysus, Iacchus, Zagreus,
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| 30. | He was also instructed in the " theurgic " Neoplatonism, as derived from the Orphic and Chaldean Oracles.
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