Note 679 — Chapter VII · THE DUAL MOTHER RÔLE

Compare the ideas of Nietzsche: “Piercing into one’s own pit,” etc. In a prayer to Hermes in a London papyrus it is said: ἐλθέ μοι, κύρίε Ἑρμῆ, ὡς τὰ βρέφη εἰς τὰς κοιλίας τῶν γυναικῶν (Come to me, Lord Hermes, as the foetus into the womb of the mother). Kenyon: “Greek Papyrus in the British Museum,” 1893, p. 116; Pap. CXXII, Z. 2 ff. Cited by Dieterich: Ibid., p. 97.