Note 1374 — Chapter X · ORPHIC MYSTERIES. (continued 2)
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The Christian fathers of course regarded the Sacred Marriage as a shameful rape. Tertullian (ad nat. II. 7, p. 57 D) asks ‘Cur rapitur sacerdos Cereris si non tale Ceres passa est?’ That Tertullian’s view is wrong is sufficiently evidenced by the author of the Philosophoumena, loc. cit.