traditionOrphicTraditions · Myth & storyRites and poems linked to Orpheus in Greek tradition. Not a free adjective for every mystery religion.Hellenic religionOrphic appears in Hellenic religion.Pausanias names Orphic rites and Orpheus-neighbors among Greek cult speech. A named Orphic tradition in that periegesis, not hermeticism as the Hermetica line and not a modern neo-Orphic dump.from Pausanias · Description of Greece, c. 150–180 CEappears in · sourced · documentedsourcesDescription of Greece · PausaniasPausanias, Description of Greece.