RADCLIFFE EDMONDS Tearing Apart the Zagreus Myth: A Few Disparaging Remarks On Orphism and Original Sin
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© 1999 . -(p); - (e). Pure I come from the pure, Queen of those below the earth, and Eukles and Eubouleus and the other gods and daimons; For I boast that I am of your blessed race. I have paid the penalty on account of deeds not just; Either Fate mastered me or the Thunderer, striking with his lightning. Now I come, a suppliant, to holy Phersephoneia, that she, gracious, may send me to the seats of the blessed.
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