CHAPTER IV
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Jung, C. G. (Carl Gustav) and Hinkle, Beatrice M.
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414. In a Bakairi myth a woman appears, who has sprung from a corn mortar. In a Zulu myth it is said: A woman is to catch a drop of blood in a vessel, then close the vessel, put it aside for eight months and open it in the ninth month. She follows the advice, opens the vessel in the ninth month, and finds a child in it. (Frobenius: “Das Zeitalter des Sonnengottes” [The Age of the Sun-God], I, p. 237.)
415. Inman: Ibid., p. 10, Plate IX.
416. Roscher: “Lexicon,” Sp. 2733/4. See section, Men.
417. A well-known sun animal, frequent as a phallic symbol.
418. Like Mithra and the Dadophores.
419. The castration in the service of the mother explains this quotation in a very significant manner: Exod. iv: 25: “Then Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cut off her son’s foreskin and cast it at his feet and said, Surely, a bloody husband art thou to me.” This passage shows what circumcision means.
420. Gilgamesh, Dionysus, Hercules, Christ, Mithra, and so on.
421. Compare with this, Graf: “R. Wagner im Fliegenden Holländer: Schriften zur angewandten Seelenkunde.”
422. I have pointed out above, in reference to the Zosimos vision, that the altar meant the uterus, corresponding to the baptismal font.