Physis
Orphic · deity · Orphic traditional religion; continuing · Recorded classification
Physis is the way things grow and therefore what they are. The Orphic Hymns address her directly, and the theogonic material sets her beside Thesis — creation as an act, and nature as the settled result of it. She is one of the clearest cases of the Orphic habit of giving cult-language to what a philosopher would call a principle: the hymn asks Nature herself to come, in the same form of words used for Demeter or Apollo.
Domains
- nature
Relations
- ally: ThesisClosely related to Thesis: the standing order of things and the setting-down that establishes it.Reference treatment describing Thesis as a divinity related to Physis. (secondary)
Sources
- Physis is Nature personified in the Orphic material, addressed in her own Orphic hymn and closely related to the primordial Thesis.: Reference treatment of Physis as Mother Nature and of her relation to Thesis. (secondary); Orphic Hymns, the hymn to Physis. (primary)