Note 695 — Chapter VII · THE DUAL MOTHER RÔLE

Spielrein’s patient received from God three wounds through her head, breast and eye. “Then there came a resurrection of the Spirit” (Jahrbuch, III, p. 376).

In the Tibetan myth of Bogda Gesser Khan the sun-hero shoots his arrow into the forehead of the demoniacal old woman, who devours it and spits it up again. In a Calmuc myth, the hero shoots the arrow into the eye emitting rays, which is found on the forehead of the bull. Compare with that the victory of Polyphemus, whose character is signified upon an Attic vase because with it there is also a snake (as symbol of the mother. See the explanation of the sacrificium Mithriacum).