Note 437 — Chapter IV · PRE-CHRISTIAN GNOSTICS: THE ORPHICI
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Dieterich, de Hymnis Orphicis, Marp. Catt. 1891. Otto Kern in the Festschrift presented to Prof. Carl Robert, 1910, points out that there is no trace of the worship of the Emperor in the Hymns, and that these must therefore all be anterior to the Christian era; also that the Egyptian deities are so seldom named in them, that the collection cannot have been made in Egypt. He thinks it comes from Asia Minor.