The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 07 of 12)Frazer, James George
Religion
The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 07 of 12)
Frazer, James George
Magic; Mythology; Religion; Superstition
42 W. Mannhardt, _op. cit._ pp. 351 _sqq._
43 W. Mannhardt, _op. cit._ p. 372, citing A. Wuttke, _Der deutsche
Volks-aberglaube_2 (Berlin, 1869), p. 339, § 543; L. Strackerjan,
_Aberglaube und Sagen aus dem Herzogthum Oldenburg_ (Oldenburg,
1867), i. 81.
44 Boecler-Kreutzwald, _Der Ehsten abergläubische Gebräuche_ (St.
Petersburg, 1854), p. 61. This custom is also cited by Mannhardt
(_l.c._).
M8 Use of the winnowing-fan in the rites of Dionysus.
45 Miss J. E. Harrison, “Mystica Vannus Iacchi,” _Journal of Hellenic
Studies_, xxiii. (1903) pp. 296 _sqq._; _id._, _Prolegomena to the
Study of Greek Religion_,2 pp. 518 _sqq._; L. R. Farnell, _The Cults
of the Greek States_, v. (Oxford, 1909) p. 243.
46 Herodotus, ii. 48, 49; Clement of Alexandria, _Protrept._ ii. 34,
pp. 29-30, ed. Potter; Dittenberger, _Sylloge Inscriptionum
Graecarum_,2 No. 19, vol. i. p. 32; M. P. Nilsson, _Studia de
Dionysiis Atticis_ (Lund, 1900), pp. 90 _sqq._; L. R. Farnell, _The
Cults of the Greek States_, v. 125, 195, 205.
47 Augustine, _De civitate Dei_, vii. 21.
M9 Myth of the death and resurrection of Dionysus. Legend that the
infant Dionysus occupied for a short time the throne of his father
Zeus. Death and resurrection of Dionysus represented in his rites.
48 Nonnus, _Dionys._ vi. 155-205.
49 Firmicus Maternus, _De errore profanarum religionum_, 6.
50 Clement of Alexandria, _Protrept._ ii. 17. Compare Ch. A. Lobeck,
_Aglaophamus_, pp. 1111 _sqq._
51 Proclus on Plato, _Cratylus_, p. 59, quoted by E. Abel, _Orphica_,
p. 228. Compare Chr. A. Lobeck, _Aglaophamus_, pp. 552 _sq._
52 Clement of Alexandria, _Protrept._ ii. 19. Compare _id._ ii. 22;
Scholiast on Lucian, _Dial. Meretr._ vii. p. 280, ed. H. Rabe.
53 Clement of Alexandria, _Protrept._ ii. 18; Proclus on Plato’s
_Timaeus_, iii. p. 200 D, quoted by Lobeck, _Aglaophamus_, p. 562,
and by Abel, _Orphica_, p. 234. Others said that the mangled body
was pieced together, not by Apollo but by Rhea (Cornutus,
_Theologiae Graecae Compendium_, 30).
54 Ch. A. Lobeck, _Aglaophamus_, pp. 572 _sqq._ See _The Dying God_, p.
3. For a conjectural restoration of the temple, based on ancient
authorities and an examination of the scanty remains, see an article
by J. H. Middleton, in _Journal of Hellenic Studies_, ix. (1888) pp.
282 _sqq._ The ruins of the temple have now been completely
excavated by the French.
55 S. Clemens Romanus, _Recognitiones_, x. 24 (Migne’s _Patrologia
Graeca_, i. col. 1434).
56 Diodorus Siculus, iii. 62.
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