Note 1421 — Chapter XI · ORPHIC ESCHATOLOGY.
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Mr Lang, op. cit. p. 81, examines ‘the alleged Egyptian origins’ of the Eleusinian mysteries and decides against M. Foucart’s theory in toto. Mr Lang certainly succeeds in showing that for all Greek mysteries a satisfactory savage analogy can be found; but this surely does not preclude the possibility of occasional borrowing. Crete has shown conclusively that ‘Mycenaean’ art borrowed from Egypt: why not ‘Mycenaean’ religion? See Classical Review, Feb. 1903, p. 84.