Note 1164 — Chapter IX · ORPHEUS.

Eratosth. Catast. XXIV. Since the above was written M. Salomon Reinach’s interesting paper ‘La Mort d’Orphée’ (Rev. Arch. 1902, p. 242) has appeared. He sees in Orpheus a fox-totem of the Bassarids. But the traits of Orpheus recorded by tradition seem to me exclusively human. I am more inclined to see in his dismemberment the echo of some tradition of ‘secondary burial,’ such as is known to have been practised in primitive Egypt and, significantly, in Crete, at Palaiokastro. See J.H.S. 1902, p. 386.