-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Perhaps... Still what of this? And of what form? Persephone, Demeter? And would she be so fortunate to find herself an initiant into the Eleusinian mysteries...? There are only three modern cults of Demeter which remain and two of them have quickly become Dionysian. Of the remaining one: Are we to believe we have found amongst ourselves a member thereof? ...she showed the conduct of her rites and taught them all her mysteries, to Triptolemus and Polyxeinus and Diocles also - -- awful mysteries which no one may in any way transgress or pry into or utter, for deep awe of the gods checks the voice. Surely she must then be a long standing mystes. For Boedromion is long past, I fear. Surely then also she must recite for us the synthema. We await it eagerly. No shame in not knowing. Could mayhap she be an Academic? An academic _ and_ a lawyer? Perhaps a classicist, of the scholarly variety- or merely armchair? Then mayhap merely a romantic. Failed Classicists are often the best romantics. Still, if not- I, Dionysos, son of Zeus, am back in Thebes. I was born here, of Semele, daughter of Cadmus, blasted from her womb by a bolt of blazing thunder. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 7.0.1 iQEVAwUBOqLBnS1onm9OaF05AQGIvgf/b1eqfnWtQJwdlj9NilXlwmxFoRCZAOt8 ctm5FKkzIE39XB18BvkJ2yDMnLkFGQZmBv3vp5RD1b6ruw98un/5kN1ZbM65zn0M 5v18j1vAWHKq135tL3oN+motvLyWk2YMgHMEcEY0wM35xdEv/edb17JoU+L00Y7W NeoCgM8MSvB9Q3ONnRfSFOAIf6pxnljxuGIQcsKDmiPUUsTm9krrXgubyn8xXpBA RsGpLtTvkQBWPowDAggOslSpiNabUcTj+UkU9t9SRkFDyNjIrke2mU97tJae8756 3tZ2kCBvFcFP8bcDwdgFWZM1+0brc5NCuSWYadD2Up8q6TQLtI35aA== =yEBx -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----