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1. (1838) The Mythology of Ancient Greece and Italy (2e éd.) pp. -516

If these observations be correct, Matutinus is the same as Matutus, and is not Janus, i. […] Below, Triptolemos is in the winged chariot, holding a sceptre and ears of corn : Demeter is handing him some more : a person, supposed to be Hecate, is behind the goddess, and another is feeding the serpents. […] “The city in which Psyche dwells is the world ; the king and queen are God and matter ; Psyche is the soul ; her sisters are the flesh and the free-will : she is the youngest, because the body is before the mind ; and she is the fairest, because the soul is higher than free-will, more noble than the body. […] “This fable, it is said, is a representation of the destiny of the human soul. The soul, which is of divine origin, is here below subjected to error in its prison the body.

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