ABSTRACT
This chapter takes a linguistic approach to the range of vowel sounds associated with divinity in the language and poetry of ancient Greek and, to a lesser extent, Hebrew, Sanskrit and Latin. Tracing the patterns of vowel sounds found in religious texts and names for the divine, this chapter asks whether the code of sonic universality can be found also in Greek poetic texts and teases out resonances of sublime voicing in the proems of the four earliest Greek poems we possess.
