orphic

• According to ancient orphic traditions, text indicates that primitive peoples often worshipped their tablets as "Living Beings of Divine Nature", reckoning it blasphemous to use these sacred signs in the profane and mundane way in which we currently think of drawings today. —  SofiaEcho RSS feed
• It derives its poetic ethic from Heidegger and from the reworking of orphic and tragic sensibilities to radical relationality with the radically non-relational. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
• The title track, on the other hand, features a haunted, orphic voice wandering amid an orchestral soundscape of strings and jazzy keyboard, layering long, stretched-out textures to create a sonic region of lost souls. —  Stories from The Sun
• In connection with one of his legends, the myth of Dionysus Zagreus, we find traces of an esoteric doctrine, taught by what were known as the orphic sects, very curiously opposed, one would have said, to the general trend of Greek conceptions. —  The Greek View of Life
• "Starving will kill as dead as hanging," was Lieders's orphic response to this. —  Stories of a Western Town

Used in the Same Context

Word Family