[662]. Orphic Hymn, 46. Compare Roscher: “Lexicon,” sect. on Iakchos.
[663]. A winnowing fan used as cradle.
[664]. A close parallel to this is the Japanese myth of Izanagi, who, following his dead spouse into the underworld, implored her to return. She is ready, but beseeches him, “Do not look at me.” Izanagi produces light with his reed, that is to say, with a masculine piece of wood (the fire-boring Phallus), and thus loses his spouse. (Frobenius: Ibid., p. 343.) Mother must be put in the place of spouse. Instead of the mother, the hero produces fire; Hiawatha, maize; Odin, Runes, when he in torment hung on the tree.
[665]. Quoted from De Jong: “Das antike Mysterienwesen.” Leiden 1910, p. 22.
[666]. A son-lover from the Demeter myth is Iasion, who embraces Demeter upon a thrice-ploughed cornfield. (Bridal couch in the pasture.) For that Iasion was struck by lightning by Zeus (Ovid: “Metam.,” IX).
[667]. In a sunless place.
[668]. Descend into a sunless desert place.
[669]. Descent into a cave.
[670]. See Cumont: “Textes et Monuments,” I, p. 56.
[671]. “Mithraslit.,” p. 123.