[672]. For example upon a Campana relief in Lovatelli (“Antichi monumenti,” Roma, 1889, I, IV, Fig. 5). Likewise the Veronese Priapus has a basket filled with phalli.
[673]. Compare Grimm: II, IV, p. 899: Either by the caressing or kissing of a dragon or a snake, the fearful animal was changed into a beautiful woman whom the hero wins in this way.
[674]. The mother, the earth, is the distributor of nourishment. The mother in presexual material has this meaning. Therefore St. Dominicus was nourished from the breasts of the mother of God. The sun wife, Namaqua, consists of bacon. Compare with this the megalomanic ideas of my patient, who asserted: “I am Germania and Helvetia made exclusively from ‘sweet butter’” (“Psychology of Dementia Praecox”).
[675]. He who achieved divinity through the womb.
[676]. He who achieved divinity through the womb; he is a serpent, and he was drawn through the womb of those who were being initiated.
[677]. The golden serpent is crowded into the breast of the initiates and is then drawn out through the lowest parts.
[678]. O Fœtus, he who is in the vagina or womb.
[679]. Compare the ideas of Nietzsche: “Piercing into one’s own pit,” etc. In a prayer to Hermes in a London papyrus it is said: ἐλθέ μοι, κύρίε Ἑρμῆ, ὡς τὰ βρέφη εἰς τὰς κοιλίας τῶν γυναικῶν (Come to me, Lord Hermes, as the foetus into the womb of the mother). Kenyon: “Greek Papyrus in the British Museum,” 1893, p. 116; Pap. CXXII, Z. 2 ff. Cited by Dieterich: Ibid., p. 97.
[680]. Compare De Jong: Ibid., p. 22.
[681]. The typical grain god of antiquity was Adonis, whose death and resurrection was celebrated annually. He was the son-lover of the mother, for the grain is the son and fructifier of the womb of the earth as Robertson very correctly remarks (“Evangelical Myths,” p. 36).