[52] Cf. Scheftelowitz, p. 338. Haven, _Der Gral_, has argued that Wolfram’s stone is such a meteoric stone, a Boetylus. I am not prepared to take up any position as to the exact nature of the stone itself, whether precious stone or meteor; the real point of importance being its Life-giving potency. [53] _Op. cit_. p. 381. [54] _Ibid_. p. 376 _et seq_. [55] _Ibid_. p. 20. [56] _Ibid_. p. 377. CHAPTER X [1] _Elucidation_, ll. 4-9 and 12, 13. [2] Potvin, ll. 19933-40. I quote from Potvin’s edition as more accessible than the MSS., but the version of mons is, on the whole, an inferior one. [3] Potvin, ll. 28108-28. [4] This is to my mind the error vitiating much of Dr Nitze’s later work, _e.g._, the studies entitled _The Fisher-King in the Grail Romances_ and _The Sister’s Son, and the Conte del Graal_. [5] _Op. cit_. Introduction, p. X. [6] Rohde, _Psyche_, p. 293, and Cumont, _op. cit_. p. 44. [7] Anrich, _Das alte Mysterien-Wesen in seinem Verhältniss zum Christentum_, p. 46. [8] _Op. cit_. p. 136. [9] Cumont, _op. cit_. p. 84. [10] _Op. cit_. pp. 104, 105. [11] Cf. Anrich, _op. cit_. p. 81. [12] Hepding, _Attis_, p. 189. [13] Cumont, _Mystères de Mithra_, pp. 19 and 78. [14] _Ibid_. p. 188. [15] _Ibid_. pp. 190 _et seq_. [16] _Vide_ Hepding, _Attis_, Chap. 4, for details. [17] Dieterich, _Eine Mithrasliturgie_, p. 174. [18] Hepding, _op. cit_. p. 196. [19] Cf. my _Legend of Sir Perceval_, Vol. II. p. 313. Hepding mentions (_op. cit_. p. 174) among the _sacra_ of the goddess _Phrygium ferrum_, which he suggests was the knife from which the Archigallus wounded himself on the ‘Blood’ day. Thus it is possible that the primitive ritual may have contained a knife. CHAPTER XI [1] Cumont, _op. cit_. Introd. pp. XX and XXI. [2] _Thrice-Greatest Hermes_, Vol. I, p. 195. [3] _Op. cit_. p. 141. [4] _Op. cit_. p. 142. [5] _Op. cit_. pp. 146 _et seq_. Reitzenstein, _Die Hellenistischen Mysterien Religionen_, Leipzig, 1910, gives the document in the original. There is also a translation of Hippolytus in the _Ante-Nicene Library_. [6] Quoted by Mead, _op. cit_. p. 138. [7] _Op. cit_. pp. 146, 147. [8] _Op. cit_. p. 151. [9] _Op. cit_. p. 152. Mr Mead concludes that there is here a lacuna of the original. [10] _Op. cit_. p. 181. In a note Mr Mead says of the Greater Mysteries, “presumaby the candidate went through some symbolic rite of death and resurrection.” [11] _Op. cit_. pp. 185, 186. I would draw especial attention to this passage in view of the present controversey as to the Origin of Drama. It looks as if the original writer of the document (and this section is in the Pagan Source) would have inclined to the views of Sir Gilbert Murray, Miss Harrison, and Mr Cornford rather than to those championed by their sarcastic critic, Sir W. Ridgeway. [12] _Op. cit_. p. 190. [13] _Vide supra_, p. 137. [14] Cf. _Legend of Sir Perceval_, Vol. II. Chapters 10 and 11.