[582]. I have since learned of a second exactly similar case.
[583]. Come, O Dionysus, in thy temple of Elis, come with the Graces into thy holy temple: come in sacred frenzy with the bull’s foot.
[584]. Preller: “Griech. Mythologie,” I, I, p. 432.
[585]. See further examples in Aigremont: “Fuss- und Schuhsymbolik.”
[586]. Aigremont: Ibid., p. 17.
[587]. Negelein: Ibid., p. 386.
[588]. Ample proofs of the Centaurs as wind gods are to be found in E. H. Meyer: “Indogermanische Mythen,” p. 447.
[589]. This is an especial motive, which must have something typical in it. My patient (“Psychology of Dementia Praecox,” p. 165) also declared that her horses had “half-moons” under their skin, like “little curls.” In the songs of Rudra of the Rigveda, of the boar Rudra it is said that his hair was “wound up in the shape of shells.” Indra’s body is covered with eyes.
[590]. This change results from a world catastrophe. In mythology the verdure and the upward striving of the tree of life signify also the turning-point in the succession of the ages.
[591]. Therefore the lion was killed by Samson, who later harvested the honey from the body. The end of summer is the plenteousness of the autumn. It is a close parallel to the sacrificium Mithriacum. For Samson, see Steinthal: “Die Sage von Simson,” Zeitschrift für Völkerpsych., Vol. II.