Having an import not apparent to the senses nor obvious to the intelligence; beyond ordinary understanding.
1Thus do we see that the orphic habit was already beginning to germinate.
2And they have such an orphic character, too; you can interpret them in so many different ways.
3The most ardent of their votaries must flush in generous deprecation when those orphic inquiries flow from lips quite as divine as their own.
4Starting at the bottom of the card, we find the Orphic egg.
5It is natural that the Orphic Alcott should build graceful summer-houses.
6The famous Orphic egg was consecrated to Bacchus in his Mysteries.
7Thus, in one of the Orphic Hymns, we find this line:-
8In the Orphic theogony we find, for the first time, the idea of creation.
9The Orphic Argonaut sings of the division of the ancient Lyktonia into separate islands.
10And the Orphic poets add a similar picture of another.
11In the Orphic poem, Phanes is both male and female.
12It is improbable that in this somewhat Orphic mystery there lies any pre-Vedic myth.
13That Orphic fable of Zagreus repeats itself in many households.
14The Orphic metamorphosis meant a complete disappearance from her life.
15No Orphic festivals on Mount Cithaeron ever raged more wildly.
16On the whole, however, our Orphic authorities can never be quoted with much satisfaction.