Taylor - Eleusianian and Bacchic Mysteries.pdf - Platonic Philosophy

252 List of Illustrations.PAGE.white, carried the sacred vessels and implements used in theMysteries in procession. Cakes of a peculiar form were madefor the occasion.27. NARCISSUS SEES His IMAGE IN WATER 42P. Ovid. Naso.The son of Cephissus and Liriope, an Oceanid, was said to bevery beautiful. He sought to win the favor of the nymph ofthe fountain where he saw his face reflected, and failing, hedrowned himself in chagrin. The gods, unwilling to lose somuch beauty, changed him into the flower now known by hisname. (See page 150.)28. JUPITER AS DIANA, AND CALISTO. P. Ovid. Naso.. 62The supreme deity of the ancients, beside numerous marriages,was credited with many amours with both divinities and mortals. In some of those adventures he succeeded by using adisguise, as here in the form of the Queen of the StarryHeavens, when he surprised Calisto (Helice), a daughter ofLycaon, king of Arcadia, an attendant on Diana. The companions of that goddess were pledged to celibacy. Jupiter, inthe form of a swan, surprised Leda, who became mother of theDioscuri (twins).29. DIANA AND CALISTO. Ovid. Naso, Neder 62The fable says that when Diana and her nymphs were bathingthe swelling form of Calisto attracted attention. It was reported to the goddess, when she punished the maid by changing her into the form of a bear. She would have been torn inpieces by the hunter s dogs, but Jupiter interposed and translated her to the heavens, where she forms the constellationThe Great Bear. Juno was jealous of Jupiter, and requestedThetis to refuse the Great Bear permission to descend at nightbeneath the waves of ocean, and she, being also jealous ofPoseidon, complied, and therefore the dipper does not dip,but revolves close around the pole star.30. BACCHANTES AND FAUNS DANCING . . 74A stage ballet. Rom .Campana, 37.31. HERCULES, BULL, AND PRIESTESS. Eom. Camp 74Bacchic orgies.32. FRUIT AND THYRSUS BEARERS. Sour. Mus 8433. TORCH-BEARER AS APOLLO. Bourbon Mus 8434. ELEUSINIAN MYSTERIES. Florence Mus. .94