Ian Gibson:
"Reading him, or seeing his plays, we enter a pre-logical world, presided over by the moon, where man is one more strand in the intricate fabric of life. Lorca himself liked the word ‘telluric’, and was perfectly aware that his was a primitive mythical vision with deep roots in the ancient cultures and religions of the Meditteranean." [2]
G.F. Lorca was Orphic - that Orphic indicates the Poet - as the transmitter. Milarepa also, is purely Orphic in singing the Teachings. Transmission through Music and Beauty. Orpheus is born through the Muse Tradition. He is essentially Hermetic, but takes the hermetic Transmission through culture - and not theology, theory, or any "ism.' The great fault of most of the material on Orpheus is that it is written from the wrong side of the brain!
Lorca was Orphic. Explore the possibility that Duende, as explained by Lorca in his essay, can be seen as Bhakti? Alain Danielou extends this idea of Bhakti - and links it to Bacchus, i.e. Dionysos. In the Robert Eisler article, Orpheus the Fisher, we find evidence of the Sadu, or Mahasiddha tradition.
Orpheus would, I suspect, be of no fixed address.
This is a poem by Lorca that shows Orphic trends.
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Adam
Morning by tree of blood is moistened
where the newly-delivered woman groans.
Her voice leaves crystals in the wound
and in the windows a print of bones.
While the light comes in secure and gains
white boundaries of oblivious fable
in the rush from the turmoil of the veins
towards the clouded coolness of the apple.
Adam dreams in the fever of clay
of a child which draws near galloping,
with the double throb of his cheek its way.
But another obscure Adam sleeping
dreams neuter seedless stone moon far away
were the child of light will be kindling.
Lorca