[212]. He was given that name because he had introduced the phallic cult into Greece. In gratitude to him for having buried the mother of the serpents, the young serpents cleaned his ears, so that he became clairaudient and understood the language of birds and beasts.
[213]. Compare the vase picture of Thebes, where the Cabiri are represented in noble and in caricatured form (in Roscher: “Lexicon,” s. Megaloi Theoi).
[214]. The justification for calling the Dactyli thumbs is given in a note in Pliny: 37, 170, according to which there were in Crete precious stones of iron color and thumblike shape which were called Idaean Dactyli.
[215]. Therefore, the dactylic metre or verse.
[216]. See Roscher: “Lexicon of Greek and Roman Mythology,” s. Dactyli.
[217]. According to Jensen: “Kosmologie,” p. 292, Oannes-Ea is the educator of men.
[218]. Inman: “Ancient Pagan and Modern Christian Symbolism.”
[219]. Varro identifies the μεγάλοι θεοί with the Penates. The Cabiri might be simulacra duo virilia Castoris et Pollucis in the harbor of Samothrace.
[220]. In Brasiae on the Laconian coast and in Pephnos some statues only a foot high with caps on their heads were found.
[221]. That the monks have again invented cowls seems of no slight importance.