The Most Pleasant And Delectable Tale of the Marriage of Cupid And Psyche :
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A familiar example is the rite called vejSj/^s/v, in the Dionysiac service. The victim is the ti^gos or fawn, and the fawn or other victim is also mystically the god.^ In the Dea Syria, Lucian speaks of the celebrant dragging the skin of the slain ram over his own head and shoulders. Compare the passage in Aglaophamus, pp. 183- 186, the goat-skin of Juno, the Albogalereum pileum, or cap of Diales Flamines, made out of the skin of the white victims of Zeus. Among the Huarochiris, a civilised pre...-Inca people of the West Pacific coast, the slayer of a lion was privileged to wear the lion's skin in sacred fes- tivals. The creator-hero of the race was once courteously addressed by a lion, and gave the beast various privileges : " Those who kill you shall wear your head over their own, and your ' "Dionysos selber Stier, Zicklein ist," Roscber, Aus- fiihr. Lexik., p. 1059. See also Pollux, ap. Lobeck, Aglaoph., p. 653, 77 iraTupiKTj i
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