[50.1] E.g. a priest of Megalopolis, a hierophantes of the Great Goddesses, is spoken of as descended from “those who first established the mystic worship of the Great Goddesses among the Arcadians,” Eph. Archaiol. 1896, p. 122: the priests of Poseidon at Halikarnassos traced their descent from those who brought his cult from Troezen at the foundation of the city, C.I.G. 2655.
[50.2] At Cos, vide Paton and Hicks, Inscriptions of Cos, No. 103 (Roman Imperial period).
[51.1] E.g. the priest of Cybele at Pessinus, and the priest of Ma in the two Comanas.
[52.1] Vide Golther, Handbuch der germanischen Mythologie, p. 612, 617.
[53.1] Vide my paper in the Archiv für Religionswissenschaft, 1904, on “The Position of Women in Ancient Religion.”
[54.2] See King, Babylonian Religion, p. 211.
[55.1] Vide chapter on “Apollo Cult” in my forthcoming fourth volume of Cults.
[55.2] Plutarch, Apophtheg. Lacon. p. 229 D: Lysander is told by the priest that before initiation he must confess his worst sin: he asks if this was the gods’ command or the priests’, and on hearing that it was the gods who enjoined it, he replied, “Then do you stand aside and I will tell the gods if they ask me.”
[55.3] Opp. Ep. 96.