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Chapter XII: Orphic Cosmogony (7)

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— on hero-reliefs, 360-363

Dipolia, 111

Dirae, 23, 143

‘Dirae’ of Teos, 143

Dithyramb, 412

Dithyrambos, 437-445

Dodona, gong at, 570

Dolioli, 44

Drama, origin of, 568

Drunkenness, 448

Dryas, 369

Egg in Mysteries, 628-630

Eiraphiotes, 488-495

Eirene, 270

Eiresione, 77-82

Eleusinian Mysteries, 540

Ennoia, 584-585

Epikleidia, 554¹ (Footnote 1379)

Epimenides, 401

Epoptes, 547

Erechtheus, 555

Ergane, 520

Erichthonios, 406

Erikapaios, 649

Erinyes, 61, 68, 213-239

Eris, 250

Eros, 626-659

— and Psyche, 533

— and the Mother, 639-641

Eubouleus, 586, 587, 588

Eukles, 586, 587, 588

Eumenides, 253-256

Eumolpidae, 554-557

Eumolpos, 554-557

Eunoë, 583, 584

Eurydice, 461, 603-605

Eurynomos, 186

_Euthyphron_, discussion of religion in the, 2

_Everruncatio_, 115

Eye, Evil, 196

Fan, winnowing, 528-535

February, 48-51

Februum, 49

Feralia, 49

Figs for purification, 99

Flaminica Dialis, 117

_Flammeum_, 522

Fleece of purification, 548

Flight ceremonies, 113

Fox totem, 462

‘Frummety’, 89² (Footnote 226)

Gephyrismoi, 136

Gong of Dodona, 570

Gorgoneion, 187-191

Graiae, 194-196

Gypsum, 135, 514

Hades, 601

Haloa, 145-150

Harpies, 178-183

Harvest-festivals, 75-119

Head of Orpheus, 469

Hebe-Ganymeda, 325

Hecate, 288

Helen Dendritis, 322

Helios, 462, 463

Hephaistos, 377

Hepialos, 167

Hera, 316-319

Herakles, 166, 347

— at Agrae, 547

— at Sekyon, 55

— in Hades, 612

— initiation of, 547

Herm, Eros as, 631

Hermes, 631

— Chthonios, 34, 35, 249

Heroes, 326-363

‘Hero-Feasts’, 350-363, 615

Hero-healers, 341-350

Heroines, cult of, 323-326

Heroïs, 403

Hersephoria, 287

Hesychidae, 247

Hesychos, 247

Hierophant, 550, 551, 564, 571, 594

Hippolytos, 354, 512

Holocaust, 16

Honey, 597

Horse-demons, 388

Horse-Medusa, 179

‘Horses’, 476

Hosia, 507

Hosioi, 434, 501-508

Hyakinthos, 339

Iacchos, 379, 414, 541-545

Iasion, 565, 566

‘Ikarios’ reliefs, 361

Immortality, 478, 571

Inferiae, 47

Intichiuma, 83

Iobaccheia, 538

Iobaccheion, 475

Iobacchoi, 656

Isodaites, 441, 482

Ivy, 429

Judges in Hades, 610

Kabeiroi, 653, 654

Kalligeneia, 126, 130, 270

Kallynteria, 114-116

Karpophoros, 263

Kathodos, 123

Ker, Eros as, 632, 636

Keraunia, 408-411

Keres, 35¹ (Footnote 45), 41-43, 165-217

Kernophoria, 160-549, 559

Kernophoros, 559

_Kernos_, 158, 159, 160, 549

Kerostasia, 183

Kerykainae, 212

Kerykeion, 42, 277

Kid, 595

Klodones, 373

Kore and Demeter, 271-273

Koreia, 145

Korybantes, 515

Korybas, 570

Koures, 401, 570

Kouretes, 172, 485, 492, 499-501

Kourotrophos, 267-271

_Krithologos_, 87

Kronia, 110

Kykeon, 155, 156

Leibethra, 457, 462, 469

Lemuria, 33, 34

Lesbos, 466-468

Lethe, 575-584

Liber, 528, 538

Libera, 528, 538

_Libum_, 89

Likna, 403

Liknites, 402, 403, 523, 524, 532, 534, 550

_Liknon_, 519-535

Liknophoria, 518-535, 547-549

Liknophoros, 534

Loutrophoria, 622

Lupercalia, 49-51

Lycomids, 471

Lycurgus, 369

Maenads, 389

Maiden, 262

Maimaktes, 17

Maniae, 255

Marriage, the Sacred, 535-538, 549-552

Masks, in ritual, 188

Masks on furnaces, 190

Matriarchy, 261, 273

Meilichioi, 16

Meilichios, 340

Melisponda, 510

Metempsychosis, 590

Metis, 649

Milk, 596-598

Mimallones, 373, 570

Mimes, 475

Minos, 611

Minotaur, 483

Mitos, 653

Mnemosyne, 509

— Well of, 575-584, 623

Moisture, Principle of, 431

Monotheism, 626

Mother, the, 260-271, 510

— and Son, 560, 561-563

Mountain Mother, 497-499

Mud in Mysteries, 615

Mysteries, 150

— Eleusinian, 150-160

— Lesser, 560

_Mystes_, 153

‘Mystic pig’, 548

Naassenes, 550

Name, new, 594

Nekuia, 73, 267

Nephalia, 91-98, 423, 509-511

Nesteia, 126

Nilus, S., 486

Ninnion, pinax of, 558, 561

Nyktelios, 441

Nymphs, 291, 318

Nysa, 379

Oknos, 618

Omadius, 485

Omestes, 489

Omophagia, 546² (Footnote 1367)

Omphalos, 59, 320, 321

— at Eleusis, 557, 558, 569, 561

Onomacritus, 473, 494

Orpheus, 456-478

— on vases, 602

Orphic Burial-Rites, 599

— Cosmogony, 625-659

— Eschatology, 573-624

— tablets, 574-600

— Theogony, 625, 626

— vases, 600-613

Osiris, 402, 440, 576, 577

Ourania, 316, 509

Paean, 439-442

_Palingenesia_, 527

Palladium, 302

Pallas, 301, 302

Pan, 101, 651

Panagia, 344

Pandora, 280-283

Pandrosos, 287

Panes, 278, 282, 290

Pangaion, 462

Pantomime, in ritual, 283

— sacred, 570

Pantomimes, 475

Parentalia, 49

Paris, judgment of, 292-299

_Pastos_, 158

Peirithoös, 612

_Pelanos_, 88-90, 156, 345, 349

Pelasgian characters, 468

Pelasgians, nameless gods of, 333

Pelops, 338

Perikonios, 430

Phanes, 646-648, 656

Pharmakos, 95-114

Pherophatta, 556

Philia, 356

Phix, 211

Phlya, 536, 537, 549

Phlya, mysteries at, 549, 641-646

Phokos, 338

Pholos, 386

Phytalmios, 427

Pig of purification, 152, 153

Pimpleia, 470

_Pithoi_, 617

Pithoigia, 32, 33¹ (Footnote 55), 37, 40-45

Pithos, 41

Plemochoae, 40, 161

Ploutos, 566, 567

Plynteria, 115

Poinae, 606

Polyxena, 61

Praxidikae, 188, 214

Priapos, 631

Proteurhythmos, 656-658

Protogene, 643

Protogonos, 648-651, 657

Protolaos, 653

Psoloeis, 409

Psychagogoi, 69

Psychostasia, 183

_Ptuon_, 531

Purification, ritual of, 24-29, 162

Purple in ritual, 249

Pyanepsia, 81

Pythagorean rites, 455, 646

Queen Archon, 537

Re-birth, 590

Rhabdos, 42-44, 277

Rhadamanthys, 611

Rhea, 562, 563

Rhombos, 491

Sabaiarius, 420

Sabazios, 418-420

_Sacra_, 157

Sacramentalism of food and drink, 454

Sacred Marriage, 551, 552, 564-566

— Spring, 522, 523

Sacrifice, fireless, 94

— human, 96, 109, 114

_Sacrima_, 84

Salmoneus, 59, 336, 607

Satrae, 370

Satyrs, 211, 380-388, 421, 422

Scape-goat, 105

Seilenoi, 388

Semele, 404

Semnai Theai, 239-253

Sieve, 532, 622

Simaetha, 139

Siren, 139, 197-207

Sisyphos, 607-610

Skedasos, daughters of, 71

Skira, 134, 135

Skirophoria, 134-136

‘Smileless Stone’, 127

Snake, Erinys as, 232-237

— form of hero, 327-332

Soul as bird, 200-201

— as star, 205

Sphinx, 207-211

Stenia, 136

Stepterion, 113

Stone of Parching, 577

Sublimation, 93

Tablets, Orphic, 574-600

Taboo, 83-85, 148, 154

Tantalos, 607, 608

— dog of, 227, 459

Tattooing, practice of, 464

Telchines, 171

Telesterion, 644

Thargelia, 74-119

Theoinia, 538

Theseus in Hades, 612

Thesmophoria, 120-160

_Thesmophoriazusae_, 144

Thesmophoros, 137

Thracians, 555

Thriae, 442, 443

Thriambos, 442-444

Thyiades, 402, 524

Titans, 493-495

Titles, cultus, 333-340

Tityos, 337

‘Token’, 155, 536, 551

_Tonea_, festival of, 316

Tragedy, 388, 421

Trinities, maiden, 286-292

Triptolemos, 273, 556, 563, 564, 610

Tritopatores, 179

Trophoniads, 580

Trophonios, 349, 579-581

Tyche, 270, 271

Uninitiated, the, 615

Vannus, 527-535

Veil, symbolism of, 522

Ver Sacrum, 522

Vestal Virgins, 44

Wand-bearers, 474-478

Water-Carriers in Hades, 615, 616

‘Well of Fair Dances,’ 127

Well-Nymphs, 620

Wheel, 589-593

Wine, 447

Women and agriculture, 272

World Egg, 626-630

Zagreus, 441, 480, 489, 491-496, 587, 588

Zan, 598

Zetes and Kalais, 181

Zeus Aktaios, 27

— Epiteleios, 356

— Hades, 17, 21

— Idaean, 480

— Ktesios, 643

— Meilichios, 13-28

— Philios, 356, 357

— Phyxios, 69

— Polieus, 111

— sacrifice to, in Homer, 11

_Zythos_, 424

CAMBRIDGE: PRINTED BY J. AND C. F. CLAY, AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS.

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