Note 57.4 — The Evolution of Religion
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In the Attis Mysteries the reborn and initiated were fed on milk—Sallustius, De Diis et Mundo, 4: for a careful treatment of the whole question, vide Dieterich, Eine Mithras-Liturgie, pp. 157-178: for various savage parallels showing the prevalence in primitive societies of the idea of death and rebirth at initiation, vide Frazer, Golden Bough, vol. iii. pp. 424-446.