Mise
Orphic · deity · Orphic traditional religion; continuing · Recorded classification
Mise is summoned in the forty-second Orphic hymn from wherever she happens to be — Eleusis, Phrygia, Cyprus, Egypt — which is a convention of the form rather than a list of her sanctuaries. She belongs to the mystery vocabulary, and her name is not securely Greek. Like Hipta and Melinoe she was for a long time a goddess who existed only inside a book of hymns; inscriptions from western Asia Minor then showed that she had been worshipped there. Melinoe is already in this registry, and admitting her while leaving out the other two would have been inconsistent.
Domains
- mystery initiation
Relations
- ally: HiptaOne of the three goddesses — with Hipta and Melinoe — known only from the Hymns until Anatolian inscriptions confirmed them.Reference treatment noting that Mise, Hipta and Melinoe were known only from the Orphic Hymns until inscriptions from western Asia Minor revealed their cult. (secondary)
Sources
- Mise is a goddess addressed in Orphic Hymn 42, summoned from Eleusis, Phrygia, Cyprus or Egypt, known only from the Hymns until inscriptions from western Asia Minor confirmed her cult.: Orphic Hymns 42, to Mise. (primary); Reference treatment of Mise and of the Anatolian inscriptional evidence for her, Hipta and Melinoe. (secondary)