Taylor - Eleusianian and Bacchic Mysteries.pdf - Platonic Philosophy

""That is,Bacchic Mysteries. 217they celebrate thee in hymnsillustrious parent of Dionysus."as theAnd thirdly,it is through the subsistence of Dionysus inthe sun that that luminary derives its circularmotion, as is evident from the following Orphic verse, in which, speaking of the sun, itis said of him, thatOovsxrx fovs .tai *at 5 aTCS .pova fxaxpoHe is called Dionysus, because he is carriedwith a circular motion through the immenseheavens."ly-extendedAnd this with theas we havegreatest propriety, since intellect,already observed, is entirely of a transformingand elevating nature : so that from all this, itis sufficiently evident why the dress of Dionysus is represented as belonging to the sun.In the second place, the vail, resembling amixture of fiery light, is an obvious image ofthe solar fire. And as to the spotted muleskin,*which isens, this isto represent the starry heavnothing more than an image of* Nebris is also a fawn-skin. The Jewish high-priest wore oneat the great festivals.It is renderedIn India the robe of Indra is spotted.<;badger s skin"in the Bible.