Orphic Egg
SET OF ANCIENT GREEK AND HELLENISTIC RELIGIOUS BELIEFS
Orphic Mysteries; Orphic; Orphic mysteries; Orphicism; Orphics; Orphic Egg; Orphic cult; Orphic cults; Orphic religion; Orphic egg; Orphistic
The Orphic Egg in the Ancient Greek Orphic tradition is the cosmic egg from which hatched the primordial hermaphroditic deity Phanes/Protogonus (variously equated also with Zeus, Pan, Metis, Eros, Erikepaios and Bromius), who in turn created the other gods.West, M.