There has been much and, I think, needless controversy as to whether this form of the tokens belongs to the mysteries at Eleusis or not. From the words that precede Clement’s statement, a mention of Attis, Kybele and the Korybants, it is quite clear that he has in his mind the mysteries of the Great Mother of Asia Minor, but from his mentioning Demeter also, it is also clear that he does not exactly distinguish between the two. The mention of the ‘tokens’ by the scholiast on Plato is expressly made with reference to the Lesser Mysteries, and these, it will later (Chap. X) be seen, are related especially to Kore and Dionysos. The whole confusion rests on the simple mythological fact that Demeter and Cybele were but local forms of the Great Mother worshipped under diverse names all over Greece. Wherever she was worshipped she had mysteries, the timbrel and the cymbal came to be characteristic of the wilder Asiatic Mother, but the Mother at Eleusis also clashed the brazen cymbals. In her ‘tokens’ however her mystics ate from the _cista_ and the basket, but the distinction is a slight one. The question of the _kernos_ is of some interest. The scholiast states that the _kernos_ was a winnowing fan, and the winnowing fan we shall later see (p. 548) was, at least in Alexandrine days, used in the mysteries of Eleusis. It was a simple agricultural instrument taken over and mysticized by the religion of Dionysos. From Athenaeus[407] however we learn of another kind of _kernos_. In his discussion of the various kinds of cups and their uses he says: ‘_Kernos_, a vessel made of earthenware, having in it many little cups fastened to it, in which are white poppies, wheat, barley, pulse, vetch, ochroi, lentils; and he who carries it after the fashion of the carrier of the _liknon_, tastes of these things, as Ammonius relates in his third book On Altars and Sacrifices.’ A second and rather fuller notice of the _kernos_ is given by Athenaeus[408] a little later in discussing the _kotylos_. ‘Polemon in his treatise “On the Dian Fleece” says, “And after this he performs the rite and takes it from the chamber and distributes it to those who have borne the _kernos_ aloft.”’ Then follows an amplified list of the contents of the _kernos_. The additions are italicized: ‘_sage_, white poppies, wheat, barley, pulse, vetch, ochroi, lentils, _beans_, _spelt_, _oats_, _a cake_, _honey_, _oil_, _wine_, _milk_, _sheep’s wool unwashed_.’