Orpheus and Orphism are re-emerging into popular consciousness from antiquity as medicine for a world shaped by the failure to adequately hold and process individual and collective grief. This stuck grief attacks the lungs and mutates across time and space into increasingly brutal forms of violence. Cynthia Day's "Hymn to Orpheus" offers a means of accessing this medicine in ritual or meditative space. Come listen to the hymn and hear Day tell its story.
Cynthia Orpheus Day is a genderfluid oracular poet, singer and diviner based in Oakland, CA. As an Orphic initiate and high priestess of Artemis, he aligns with the power of queer ancestors and spirits of wildness and liberation to establish space for those who reject patriarchal gender and sexual roles. She resists the hegemony of academia and empirical forms of knowledge in favor of a collectively comprised and equitably distributed authority; she would rather sing than know. Their writing and sound-based work can be found under various names in baest, dirt children, and Hot Pink Magazine.