Editing Eos (section)

==== Orphic literature ====
[[File:Eos utgjutande morgondaggen, Nordisk familjebok.png|thumb|Eos pouring the morning dew dressed in a starsprinkled robe, from an antique vase]]

Eos is addressed by the singer in one of the ''[[Orphic Hymns]]'', as the bringer of the new day:

{{Blockquote|
Hear, O goddess, you bring the light of day to mortals<br>
resplendent Dawn, you blush throughout the world<br>
messenger of the great, the illustrious [[Helios|Titan]].
|title=''[[Orphic Hymn]] 78 to the Dawn''.<ref>''[[Orphism (religion)|Orphic Hymn]] 78 to the Dawn'' 1&ndash;3, (Athanassakis & Wolkow, [https://books.google.com/books?id=TTo3r8IHy0wC&pg=PA61 p. 61]).</ref>}}

The position of the hymn in the collection at number 78 is odd, far from the Hymns to the Night (3), the Sun (8) and the Moon (9), where it would be expected to be grouped.<ref name=":181">Athanassakis and Wolkow, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=iaEIvzlc41QC&pg=RA1-PA181 181]</ref> While many of the ''Orphic Hymns'' describe the divinities in terms on light, the hymn to Eos is the only one that calls upon the divinity to provide light to the initiates.<ref name=":181"/>