Taylor - Eleusianian and Bacchic Mysteries.pdf - Platonic Philosophy

236 Appendix.then they called it the marriage of Jupiterand Juno, of Heaven and Earth [Uranos andGre],of Saturn and Rhea : but at anothertime, they considered it as subsisting between subordinate and superior divinities ;and then they called it the marriage of Jupiter and Ceres ;but at another time, on thecontrary, they beheld it as subsisting between superior and subordinate divinities;and then they called it the marriage of Jupiter and Kore. For in the gods there is onekind of communion between such as area co-ordinate nature ;subordinate and supreme ;ofanother between theand another againbetween the supreme and subordinate.Andit is necessary to understand the peculiarityof each, and to transfer a conjunction of thiskind from the godsto the communion ofideas with each other." And in Timceus,book i.,he observes :y,ca TO TTJV aor/jv (suppleftsav) sispoic YJTOV aoiov $-ov TcXsioat o^CsuyvoaO-at,Xa^occ &v * ^tw [jtuaTtxcav%at TCOV sv aicoppTjtotc Xeyojxevcov tspcov/. e. And that the same " goddess is conjoinedwith other gods, or the same god with manygoddesses, may be collected from the mystic