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The beautiful Hymn of Cailimachus to Ceres
opens at the moment in which the KaAaGw is
descending for the procession on the fourth day.*
The women are called upon to hail its approach,
and the prophanc to cast their looks to the ground,
not venturing to contemplate so much sanctity.
Ceres being the same with Isis,:}: the KaAaS/of,
or Turret, upon her head, is in itself a symbo-
lical representation of the Lotus. Of this we
have sufficient proof, by observing the various
modes in which the Lotus has been represented
upon the heads of Isis, and the KaAaGo?, or K«x«-
6w, upon the heads of Ceres. In many instances
they will be found to be one and the same
symbol. A very ancient and remarkable Statue
of Ceres was published by Fabretti, and is en-
graved in Montfaucon,-]- where the Lotus ap-
pears exactly as on the ligures of Isis, found in
Egypt.§ It seems an established truth, that
Isis was the Venus of Cyprus, the Minerva of
Athens, the Cybelc of the Phrygians, the Ceres
of Eleusis, the Proserpine of Sicily, the Diana
* Tw Ka;\a!3u KktioiIo;, &c. The old Scholiast to these wordj
relates that Ptolemy Philadelphia introduced the procession of the
K*^a9io» at Alexandria. (Callim. Hym. &c. Edit. Ernesti. p. 232.)
The Rites of Ceres were thus conveyed to the country from which
they originally came.
+ Herodot. Lib. 2. c. 59. ' Ic-i; It'yrji k«t« nt 'EWm»> y\Z<rcctt
An^irr^. Hist, des Inscriptions. Vol. 16. 20. vol. 21. SC. 87.
f PI. 45. %. 6. vol. 1. § See fig 4. of the Plate,
The beautiful Hymn of Cailimachus to Ceres
opens at the moment in which the KaAaGw is
descending for the procession on the fourth day.*
The women are called upon to hail its approach,
and the prophanc to cast their looks to the ground,
not venturing to contemplate so much sanctity.
Ceres being the same with Isis,:}: the KaAaS/of,
or Turret, upon her head, is in itself a symbo-
lical representation of the Lotus. Of this we
have sufficient proof, by observing the various
modes in which the Lotus has been represented
upon the heads of Isis, and the KaAaGo?, or K«x«-
6w, upon the heads of Ceres. In many instances
they will be found to be one and the same
symbol. A very ancient and remarkable Statue
of Ceres was published by Fabretti, and is en-
graved in Montfaucon,-]- where the Lotus ap-
pears exactly as on the ligures of Isis, found in
Egypt.§ It seems an established truth, that
Isis was the Venus of Cyprus, the Minerva of
Athens, the Cybelc of the Phrygians, the Ceres
of Eleusis, the Proserpine of Sicily, the Diana
* Tw Ka;\a!3u KktioiIo;, &c. The old Scholiast to these wordj
relates that Ptolemy Philadelphia introduced the procession of the
K*^a9io» at Alexandria. (Callim. Hym. &c. Edit. Ernesti. p. 232.)
The Rites of Ceres were thus conveyed to the country from which
they originally came.
+ Herodot. Lib. 2. c. 59. ' Ic-i; It'yrji k«t« nt 'EWm»> y\Z<rcctt
An^irr^. Hist, des Inscriptions. Vol. 16. 20. vol. 21. SC. 87.
f PI. 45. %. 6. vol. 1. § See fig 4. of the Plate,