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Title: The Open court
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Carus, Paul, 1852-1919 Open Court Publishing company, Chicago
Subjects: Religion Religion and science
Publisher: Chicago : The Open Court Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Morris Library, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Digitizing Sponsor: CARLI: Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois

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3- Christ as Orpheus.• I and 3, from paintings in the cemetery of St. Calixtus in the Catacombs of Rome. 2, from a coin of Antoninus Pius (third century). picture of the Mater Dolorosa than as an illustration of the natureand growth of Grecian legend generally, saying : In the mouth of an Athenian, Demetfir and Persephonfi were always theMother and Daughter, by excellence. She is first an agonised sufferer, and then 1 Symbols and Emblems of Early and Mediaeval Christian Art. By Louisa Twining. PI. i6-London, 18B5. ON GREEK RELIGION AND MYTHOLOGY. 645 finally glorified,—the weal and woe of men being dependent upon her kindly feel-ing. Grote adds : Though we now read this hymn as pleasing poetry, to the Eleusinians, forwhom it was composed, it was genuine and sacred history. They believed in thevisit of Demeter to Eleusis, and in the mysteries as a revelation from her, as im-plicitly as they believed in her existence and power as a goddess.
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ORPHEUS.The Orphic Mysteries were similar to the Eleusinian, in ritualas well as in significance, and though we possess but meagre in-formation concerning the legend and cult, which were kept secret,we know that it inculcated in some way a belief in immortality. 646 THE OPEN COURT. Orpheus, the singer who tamed the wild beasts of the woods byhis music, lost his wife, Eurydice, by death; but going down to theUnder World he moved Hades by his music to suffer her to followhim back again to the Upper World on condition that he shouldnot look round upon her. He violated this condition, however,and she vanished from his sight. The legend runs that Orpheus was slain, or, like DionysosZagreus, torn to pieces by the frenzied women of Thrace. Our in-formation is too scanty and also contradictory to allow us to formany clear conception of the meaning of the Orphic rituals andmyths; but one thing is certain : there were many among the early

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