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Orphic Hymn to Gaia (Mother Earth) | Ancient Greek Lyre & Pandura Performance
Orphic Hymn to Gaia (Mother Earth) — performed in the original Ancient Greek, accompanied by a handcrafted ancient Greek lyre and pandura. The Orphic Hymns are a mystical collection of 87 ancient poems attributed to the legendary poet Orpheus. Addressed to deities ranging from Dionysus—god of fertility and ecstatic rites—to Melinoë, the bringer of nightmares and madness, these hymns were central to mystery cult initiations and often recited during secret nocturnal ceremonies in the 2nd–3rd century CE.
This particular hymn is dedicated to Gaia, the Mother Earth, the source of gods and mortals alike. She is praised as the deep-bosomed nourisher, the strong base of the immortal world, who grants fertility, abundance, and flourishing life, while also holding the power to withdraw it. To honor Gaia is to honor the very foundation of existence itself.
“Gaia, goddess […] firm foundation of the immortal cosmos.”
— Orphic Hymn to Gaia, 2nd–3rd century CE
In this video, Theodore Koumartzis performs the Orphic Hymn to Gaia on the ancient Greek lyre and Marios Podaras on the pandura—both masterfully handcrafted in Greece by the LUTHIEROS family—and Giorgos Saratsis narrates in the original ancient Greek.