Psychology of the Unconscious / A Study of the Transformations and Symbolisms of the Libido. A Contribution to the History of the Evolution of Thought

by C. G. Jung

[826]. The typical sacrificial death in the Dionysus cult.

[827]. In the festival processions they wore women’s clothes.

[828]. In Bithynia Attis was called πάπας (papa, pope) and Cybele, Mã. In the early Asiatic religions of this mother-goddess, there existed fish worship and prohibition against fish as food for the priests. In the Christian religion, it is noteworthy that the son of Atargatis, identified with Astarte, Cybele, etc., is called Ἰχθύς (Creuzer: “Symbolik,” II, 60). Therefore, the anagram of the name of Christ = ΙΕΣΟΥΣ ΧΡΙΣΤΟΣ ΘΕΟΥ ΥΙΟΣ ΣΩΤΕΡ = ΙΧΘΥΣ.

[829]. Spiegel: “Erân. Altertumskunde,” 2, 76.

[830]. A. Nagel: “Der chinesische Küchengott Tsau-kyun.” Archiv für Religionswissenschaft, XI, 23 ff.

[831]. In Spiegel’s “Parsigrammatik,” pp. 135, 166.

[832]. Porphyrius says: ὡς καὶ ὁ ταῦρος δημιουργὸς ὡν ὁ Μίθρας καὶ γενέσεως δεσπότης (As the bull is the Creator, Mithra is the Lord of birth).

[833]. The death of the bull is voluntary and involuntary. When Mithra strangles the bull, a scorpion bites the bull in the testicles (autumn equinox).

[834]. Benndorf: “Bildwerke des Lateran Museum,” No. 547.

[835]. “Textes et Monuments,” I, 182.