Orphism

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(religion, Ancient Greece) A religious movement in antiquity, supposed to have been founded by Orpheus.
Coordinate term: Pythagoreanism

(art) A minor Cubist art movement focusing on pure abstraction and bright colours.
Synonym: Orphic cubism

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The Cubists and the other avantgarde [in France] can see the danger of being called Futurists. They are attracted by research involving the movement and the complexity of subjects. To avoid this kind of treat, they invented Orphism. Gino Severini

But in spite of his use of the term Orphism these works were so different that they defy attempts to place them in a single category. Source: Internet

Such was the teaching of Orphism which appeared in Greece about the 6th century BC, organized itself into private and public mysteries at Eleusis and elsewhere, and produced a copious literature. Source: Internet

However the inter-relation of Manicheanism, Orphism, Gnosticism and neo-Platonism is far from clear. Source: Internet

However Xenophon does not mention Socrates as believing in reincarnation and Plato may have systematised Socrates' thought with concepts he took directly from Pythagoreanism or Orphism. Source: Internet

This mystical element entered into Greek philosophy with Pythagoras, who was a reformer of Orphism as Orpheus was a reformer of the religion of Dionysus. Source: Internet

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