[43.2] _Cults of Greek States_, vol. ii. p. 735: R. 25b. [44.1] _Cf._ the method of Greco-Egyptian magic of strangling birds before the idol of Eros, in order that their breath may animate it, mentioned in an Abraxas papyrus, _Class. Rev._ 1896, p. 409. [45.1] _Vide_ Schrader, _Real-Lexikon_, _s.v._ Eid. [45.2] _Ad Nat._ i. 12. [47.1] The _Tatu_, _Tat_, or _Ded_ pillar erected in the ritual of Osiris, perhaps as a symbol of the resurrection of the god, had the form of a cross: _vide_ Frazer, _Golden Bough_(2), ii. p. 141. [48.1] Vide _Palace of Knossos_: Provisional Report for year 1903, p. 92: the writer quotes Babylonian and Assyrian examples. [49.1] Epist. 395: the doctrines of the Orphic sects from the fourth century B.C. onwards also emphasised the kinship of man with God, as the well-known Orphic tablets, found in South Italy and Crete, reveal (_Hell. Journ._ 3, p. 112: Miss J. Harrison, _Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion_: Appendix by Prof. Murray, p. 660). In the pseudo-Platonic _Axiochus_, p. 371 D, the sick man is assured of salvation as being “of the family of God” γεννήτης τῶν θεῶν. [50.1] _E.g._ a priest of Megalopolis, a hierophantes of the Great Goddesses, is spoken of as descended from “those who first established the mystic worship of the Great Goddesses among the Arcadians,” _Eph. Archaiol._ 1896, p. 122: the priests of Poseidon at Halikarnassos traced their descent from those who brought his cult from Troezen at the foundation of the city, _C.I.G._ 2655. [50.2] At Cos, _vide_ Paton and Hicks, _Inscriptions of Cos_, No. 103 (Roman Imperial period). [51.1] _E.g._ the priest of Cybele at Pessinus, and the priest of Ma in the two Comanas. [52.1] _Vide_ Golther, _Handbuch der germanischen Mythologie_, p. 612, 617. [53.1] _Vide_ my paper in the _Archiv für Religionswissenschaft_, 1904, on “The Position of Women in Ancient Religion.” [54.1] _Vide infra_, p. 72. [54.2] See King, _Babylonian Religion_, p. 211. [55.1] _Vide_ chapter on “Apollo Cult” in my forthcoming fourth volume of _Cults_. [55.2] Plutarch, _Apophtheg. Lacon._ p. 229 D: Lysander is told by the priest that before initiation he must confess his worst sin: he asks if this was the gods’ command or the priests’, and on hearing that it was the gods who enjoined it, he replied, “Then do you stand aside and I will tell the gods if they ask me.” [55.3] _Opp. Ep._ 96. [55.4] _Vide_ Herzog, _Real-Encyclopädie_, _s.v._ _Beichte_. [56.1] Jourdanet et Siméon, p. 24. [57.1] Heszch, _s.v._ Ἀμφιδρόμια. [57.2] _Vide_ Golther, _op. cit._ p. 555. [57.3] _Polit._ p. 1336 B. [57.4] In the Attis Mysteries the reborn and initiated were fed on milk--Sallustius, _De Diis et Mundo_, 4: for a careful treatment of the whole question, _vide_ Dieterich, _Eine Mithras-Liturgie_, pp. 157-178: for various savage parallels showing the prevalence in primitive societies of the idea of death and rebirth at initiation, _vide_ Frazer, _Golden Bough_, vol. iii. pp. 424-446.