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- [Footnote: [Greek: ta\ py(rina klei~thra tou~ ou)ranou~] (Thou who hast closed up the fiery locks of
heaven, with the breath of the spirit,—open to me). "With iron one can create cold people from the stone." The boring into the earth has for her the meaning of fructification or birth. She says: "With the glowing iron one can pierce through mountains. The iron becomes glowing when one pushes it into a stone."
Compare with this the etymology of bohren and gebären (see above). In the "Bluebird" of Maeterlinck the two children who seek the bluebird in the land of the unborn children, find a boy who bores into his nose. It is said of him: he will discover a new fire, so as to warm the earth again, when it will have grown cold.]
