already mentioned, a bearded Dionysus is represented as [Greek: KABEIROS], together with a figure of a boy as [Greek: Pai~s], followed by a caricatured boy's figure designated as [Greek: PRATOLAOS] and then again a caricatured man, which is represented as [Greek: MITOS].[20] [Greek: Mi/tos] really means thread, but in orphic speech it stands for semen. It was conjectured that this collection corresponded to a group of statuary in the sanctuary of a cult. This supposition is supported by the history of the cult as far as it is known; it is an original Phenician cult of father and son;[21] of an old and young Cabir who were more or less assimilated with the Grecian gods. The double figures of the adult and the child Dionysus lend themselves particularly to this assimilation. One might also call this the cult of the large and small man. Now, under various aspects, Dionysus is a phallic god in whose worship the phallus held an important place; for example, in the cult of the Argivian Bull—Dionysus. Moreover, the phallic herme of the god has given occasion for a personification of the phallus of Dionysus, in the form of the god Phales, who is nothing else but a Priapus. He is called [Greek: e(tai~ros] or [Greek: sy/nkômos Ba/kchou][1].[22] Corresponding to this state of affairs, one cannot very well fail to recognize in the previously mentioned Cabiric representation, and in the added boy's figure, the picture of man and his penis.[23] The previously mentioned paradox in the Upanishad text of large and small, of giant and dwarf, is expressed more mildly here by man and boy, or father and son.[24] The motive of deformity which is used constantly by the
- ↑ Comrade—fellow-reveller.
