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The ' Hero-Feasts.' Snake and cornucopia as symbols of the Agathos
Daimon and the hero. The daimon proper is a functionary but gets
'contaminated' with the individual dead man.
Theseus as Hero-daimon. His ritual in the Oschophoria is that of a
Year-daimon. The Eiresione. The raythos of a Year-daimon. Analysis of
mythos. The Eniautos-mythos. Its elements. Its monotony. Its survival
in folk-plays to-day. Attic drama has the forms of an Eniautos-mythos but
the material of the Homeric saga. Hippolytos as Year-Daimon and Kouros.
pp. 260—363.
Excursus on the Ritual Forms preserved in Greek tragedy.
Tragedy in origin a Sacer Ludus of Dionysos as Eniautos-Daimon. Its
elements are an Agon, a Pathos, a Messenger, a Threnos, an Anagnorisis,
followed by a Theophany. The Satyrs and the Peripeteia. Necessary
sequence of these ritual forms. The Theophany in iEschylus, Sophocles and
Euripides. The Prologue and the Prorrhesis. Reassertion in Euripides of
Sacer Ludus forms. The 'fundamental paradox.' pp. 341—363.
-n CHAPTER IX.
From Daimon to Olympian.
Herakles as transition figure between daimon and Olympian god.
Herakles as fertility- and year-daimon—as Herm—as Thallophoros. His
attributes the branch and the cornucopia. The Herakles of the Trachiniae
as daimon of the Sun-year. Herakles as Idaean Daktyl. Ritual of Herakles
as Year-Daimon and as Olympian. Yearly sacrifice characteristic of heroes.
Herakles as Alexikakos of epheboi, as husband of Hebe. Asklepios and
Telesphoros as Year-daimones.
The sequence of cults at Delphi. Prologue to Eumenides. Gaia and
Themis. Phoibe as Moon. Oracle of Night at Delphi. Worship of Earth
precedes worship of Metarsia and Meteora. JEschylus supposes a peaceful
evolution, Euripides a conflict of cults.
Ritual of Gaia. Omphalos as sacred stone, as grave-mound. Omphalos
and beehive tombs. 'Tomb of Tantalos.' ' Daktyl's Monument.' Grave
mound and Aguieus-cone. Apollo Aguieus. Omphalos at Argos.
Ritual of Gaia in Ennaeteric Festivals at Delphi. The Charila and
Herois. Heroines as fertility-daimones. The ' Bringing up of Semele.' The
Anodos on vases. Satyrs at the Anodos. The Stepterion. An Eniautos-
festival. The Python as snake-king. Kadmos and Jason as snake-slayers.
The snake as daimon of tree and well. The Spartoi and the dragon's teeth.
The Apollo of the Daphnephoria as Phoibos. Apollo as Kouros. Apellon.
Apollo and Dionysos as Kouroi. Contrast between the two. Both are
Megistoi Kouroi. Only Apollo becomes fully Olympianized. pp. 364—444.