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Note 130 — ON THE CAVE OF THE NYMPHS, IN THE THIRTEENTH BOOK OF THE ODYSSEY.

Thomas Taylor translation

Hence Phanes, or Protogonus, who is the paradigm of the universe, and who was absorbed by Jupiter, the Demiurgus, is represented by Orpheus as having the head of a bull among other heads with which he is adorned. And in the Orphic hymn to him, he is called bull-roarer.

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