Orphica I: from the Derveni Papyrus to the “Orphic” Gold Tablets

Eugene Afonasin
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The paper is concentrated on the Derveni papyrus. According to the cosmology of the papyrus Zeus recreated the world anew. The meaning of this self-contained process may indicate the poet's desire to reflect the cyclicity of time, manifested in the alternation of the one and the many. Besides, this model may be related to the famous Orphic idea of the cyclic life of the soul. It is also possible that we are facing the first example of the cosmological scheme, which we later find in Heraclides of Pontus, and I think that it is no accident that the doxographer (or Heraclides himself) attributes it to the Orphics, who “make each of the heavenly bodies into a cosmos” (Aetius 2.13.15). The eternally existent universe evolves thanks to the creative energy of sky (Uranus), which is concentrated in the sun. Zeus recreates this universe on earth, building a small cosmos in which we inhabit and all that we see. Developing this idea in the spirit of Giordano Bruno, we can assume that this or that deity, in the Orphic (and Pythagorean) view, recreates from the original material a unique cosmos on each of the celestial bodies, and the universe is populated by a variety of beings inhabiting all kinds of worlds.
奥菲斯卡1:从德尔维尼纸莎草到“奥菲斯”金碑
论文主要集中在德尔维尼纸莎草上。根据莎草纸上的宇宙论,宙斯重新创造了世界。这种自成一体的过程的意义可能表明诗人反映时间循环的愿望,表现在一与多的交替中。此外,这种模式可能与著名的俄耳甫斯关于灵魂轮回的思想有关。也有可能我们面对的是宇宙学方案的第一个例子,我们后来在本都的赫拉克利德身上找到了,我认为,地理学家(或赫拉克利德本人)将其归因于奥尔菲斯,他们“将每个天体都变成一个宇宙”(埃提乌斯2.13.15),这并非偶然。永恒存在的宇宙的进化要归功于天空(天王星)的创造性能量,它集中在太阳上。宙斯在地球上重新创造了这个宇宙,建立了一个小宇宙,我们居住在其中,我们所看到的一切。根据布鲁诺的精神发展这一思想,我们可以假设这个或那个神,在奥尔甫斯派(和毕达哥拉斯派)的观点中,从原始物质中重新创造了每个天体上独特的宇宙,宇宙由居住在各种世界中的各种生物组成。
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