Note 202 — Chapter II · THE ALEXANDRIAN DIVINITIES

E.g. the mystic marriage of Zeus or Dionysos with Demeter, which according to Hippolytus, Philosophumena, Bk V. c. 1, § 8, p. 171, Cruice, and Clement of Alexandria, Protrept. c. II., formed the crowning scene of the Eleusinian Mysteries. At Dendera, the corresponding union of Osiris and Isis, from which, according to M. Foucart, the Eleusinian legend was derived, was depicted in the most realistic way on the temple walls. See Mariette, Dendérah, Paris, 1875, t. IV. pl. 65 sqq., or Budge, G.E. pp. 132-137.