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The name Ino, which the prior fact, tation of her character is fails or not, but its root-meaning The us. to help us and literary notice of her first ; it may root-affinities is be Hellenic have escaped Homer, in in the thrilling narrative where, as a kindly sea-fairy, she aids the drowning Odysseus. But the poet aware that this is not Ino Leukothea of the fair ankles, daughter of Kadmos, who was once a mortal speaking with the tongue of men, but now in the salt sea-waters has received honour at the hands of the Gods '.
DIVINE OR DAIMONIAC ORIGIN of vegetation-ritual are often blurred and 31 indistinct ; and, though we can generally recognize the significance of certain main features, it is sometimes difficult to harmonize the details. A fairly frequent rite is the hanging of the puppet of the vegetation-daimon on a tree, for the magical purposes of fertilization the masks or images of Dionysos were often used thus, and a certain legend about a xoanon of Artemis ; ' ' meaning ^. Hence arose various aetiological stories, mainly about heroines, who for certain reasons hanged themselves or were hanged upon trees.
122. all the baifxovfs of ba[fx(av Sios then familiar with the idea that mortals " Op. 141. '' '^. the gold and silver age. Theog. 088-990. < Psyche i, who p. 91, &c. PREHISTORIC PERIOD 13 have passed away might now be divine powers, and this an important fact in the history of Greek religious is thought. But who are these baCfxoves (inx^ovioi and Satjuoye? v-noydovioi They are not the heroes of epic saga, who are translated to the happy isles and receive no worship they are not the generations of the Mycenaean culture, for in sober reality ?