Note 6 — XV. THE ANCIENT MYSTERIES

(6) Farnell, op. cit., iii. 176. Messrs. Gardner and Jevons, in their Manual of Greek Antiquities, above-quoted, compare the Eleusinian Mysteries favorably with some of the others, like the Arcadian, the Troezenian, the Aeginaean, and the very primitive Samothracian: saying (p. 278) that of the last-mentioned “we know little, but safely conjecture that in them the ideas of sex and procreation dominated EVEN MORE than in those of Eleusis.”