Note 50 — Chapter I · OLYMPIAN AND CHTHONIC RITUAL.

P. I. 34. 2-5. Strabo (VI. § 284) says that the Daunians when they consulted the oracle of the hero Calchas sacrificed a black ram to him and slept on the fleece. The worshippers of the ‘Syrian Goddess,’ Lucian says (De Syr. Dea 35), knelt on the ground and put the feet and the head of the victim on their heads. He probably means that they got inside the skin and wore it with the front paws tied round the neck as Herakles wears the lion-skin.