Chapter X: 1 Elucidation, ll. 4-9 and 12, 13

[2] Potvin, ll. 19933-40. I quote from Potvin’s edition as more accessible than the MSS., but the version of mons is, on the whole, an inferior one.

[3] Potvin, ll. 28108-28.

[4] This is to my mind the error vitiating much of Dr Nitze’s later work, _e.g._, the studies entitled _The Fisher-King in the Grail Romances_ and _The Sister’s Son, and the Conte del Graal_.

[5] _Op. cit_. Introduction, p. X.

[6] Rohde, _Psyche_, p. 293, and Cumont, _op. cit_. p. 44.

[7] Anrich, _Das alte Mysterien-Wesen in seinem Verhältniss zum Christentum_, p. 46.

[8] _Op. cit_. p. 136.

[9] Cumont, _op. cit_. p. 84.

[10] _Op. cit_. pp. 104, 105.

[11] Cf. Anrich, _op. cit_. p. 81.

[12] Hepding, _Attis_, p. 189.

[13] Cumont, _Mystères de Mithra_, pp. 19 and 78.

[14] _Ibid_. p. 188.

[15] _Ibid_. pp. 190 _et seq_.

[16] _Vide_ Hepding, _Attis_, Chap. 4, for details.

[17] Dieterich, _Eine Mithrasliturgie_, p. 174.

[18] Hepding, _op. cit_. p. 196.

[19] Cf. my _Legend of Sir Perceval_, Vol. II. p. 313. Hepding mentions (_op. cit_. p. 174) among the _sacra_ of the goddess _Phrygium ferrum_, which he suggests was the knife from which the Archigallus wounded himself on the ‘Blood’ day. Thus it is possible that the primitive ritual may have contained a knife.