{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>Then there are the mysteries of Demeter, and Zeus’s wanton embraces of\r\nhis mother, and the wrath of Demeter; I know not what for the future\r\nI shall call her, mother or wife, on which account it is that she is\r\ncalled Brimo, as is said; also the entreaties of Zeus, and the drink\r\nof gall, the plucking out of the hearts of sacrifices, and deeds that\r\nwe dare not name. Such rites the Phrygians perform in honour of Attis\r\nand Cybele and the Corybantes. And the story goes, that Zeus, having\r\ntorn away the testicles of a ram, brought them out and cast them at\r\nthe breasts of Demeter, paying thus a fraudulent penalty for his\r\nviolent embrace, pretending to have cut out his own. The symbols of\r\ninitiation into these rites, when set before you in a vacant hour,<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_29\">[29]</span> I\r\nknow will excite your laughter, although on account of the exposure by\r\nno means inclined to laugh. I have eaten out of the drum, I have drunk\r\nout of the cymbal, I have carried the Cernos,<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_29\" id=\"FNanchor_29\">[29]</a> I have slipped into\r\nthe bedroom. Are not these signs a disgrace? Are not the mysteries\r\nabsurdity?</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","EXHORTATION TO THE HEATHEN.","CHAPTER II. THE ABSURDITY AND IMPIETY OF THE HEATHEN MYSTERIES AND FABLES ABOUT THE BIRTH AND DEATH OF THEIR GODS."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_29","paragraph_id":"pg71937-paragraph-63"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"0f9a40eca32ff6bed301fda86f539eedaecb1a37159b2bf4a61146222a38df19","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1867,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg71937-Footnote_29","license_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/policy/license.html","public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"original-editor-translator-note","review_required":["work and recension attribution","original-work chronology","Bible reference numbering and citation kind","English edition rights and attribution"],"review_status":"needs_review","rights_evidence":"Project Gutenberg metadata: Public domain in the USA. Existing 1867 English translation; translator died 1875. Electronic transcription subject to Project Gutenberg reuse terms.","source_anchor":"Footnote_29","source_ebook":71937,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_29\" id=\"Footnote_29\">[29]</a> The cernos some take to be a vessel containing poppy,\r\netc., carried in sacrificial processions. The scholiast says that it is\r\na fan.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"8e5c5bc39922dbad2626ac7651c2eb2e3d94cdcbd721f781e9792143ebb1cd03","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/71937/pg71937-images.html#Footnote_29","text_sha256":"6e0927e981b446f7354066023831554f7d05d9aba0dc47a6377f15db38f8aef2","verified":false,"work_id":null}