Χαίρε Νύμφη Θεά
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His hymn draws heavily on the liturgical traditions and musical forms of 6th century Byzantium and reflects the music of the early Eastern Orthodox Church at a time when it was borrowing heavily from the cultural and philosophical traditions of Hellenic and pre-Hellenic Greece.
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The chorus of "Khaire Nymphe" is an invocation to "The Bride" and appears in Orphic hymns long before it was consciously appropriated by the Byzantine Church and given new meaning.
St. Nektarios was a scholar and an expert in both Byzantine liturgy and the pre-Christian sacred texts and would have been well aware of the original context when he composed this hymn ...
A pre-Christian version - upon which this hymn could haven been based - may have included the evocative chorus :
.:. Khaire Nymphe .:. Io Nymphe Thea .:.
.:. Χαίρε Νύμφη .:. Ιώ Νύμφη Θεά .:.
St. Nektarios was a scholar and an expert in both Byzantine liturgy and the pre-Christian sacred texts and would have been well aware of the original context when he composed this hymn ...
A pre-Christian version - upon which this hymn could haven been based - may have included the evocative chorus :
.:. Khaire Nymphe .:. Io Nymphe Thea .:.
.:. Χαίρε Νύμφη .:. Ιώ Νύμφη Θεά .:.
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ΚΑΙ ΥΠΟ ΧΡΙΣΤΙΑΝΙΚΟ ΖΥΓΟ ΔΕΝ ΞΕΧΝΩ: ΕΛΛΗΝ ΕΙΜΑΙ