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- Castleden, R. (1990), Minoans: Life in Bronze Age Crete. Routledge.
- The verb used in the original Greek text is ωοτοκεί (“giving birth to eggs”), which ulti-
mately became the term “biology.” (Sophia Rhizopoulou, personal communication.) - The shape given in the line drawing from the original publication ( figure 7.18B) is some-
what misleading because the sides of the figure are straight, as indicated in the painted recon-
struction ( figure 7.18A), not curved at the base as depicted. The curved base presumably reflects
the concave dimensions of the bowl’s inner surface, which becomes curved in flat projection, as
well as the curved shape of the lip of the bowl. - Burkert, W. (1985), Greek Religion: Archaic and Classical, trans. John Raffan, Harvard
University Press; Kerényi, C. (1967), Eleusis: Archetypal Image of Mother and Daughter.
Princeton University Press. - Burkert, Greek Religion.
43. Ibid. - Warren, P., personal communication.
- Molina, R. V., et al. (2004), The effect of time of corm lifting and duration of incuba-
tion at inductive temperature on flowering in the saffron plant (Crocus sativus L.). Scientia
Horticulturae 103:79– 91. - For example, Gadon, E. W. (1989), The Once and Future Goddess: A Symbol for Our Time.
HarperCollins. - Negbi, M., et al. (1989), Growth, flowering, vegetative reproduction, and dormancy in the
saffron crocus (Crocus sativus L.). Israel Journal of Botany 38:95– 113. - Gadon, The Once and Future Goddess.
- According to the Hittite myth, the god Telepinu’s disappearance causes the crops to fail.
He reappears only after the goddess of magic transfers his anger to the Underworld. - Translated by Helene P. Foley (1994), in The Homeric Hymn to Demeter: Translation,
Commentary, and Interpretive Essays. Princeton University Press, p. 4. - Idem., p. 6.
- Burkert, W. (1979), Structure and History in Greek Mythology and Ritual. University of
California Press.
53. Ibid. - For example, in Aristophanes’ Lysistrata, a woman cites the wearing of “saffron robes” as
a part of an initiation ceremony for young girls:
I bore the holy vessels
At seven, then
I pounded barley
At the age of ten,
And clad in saffron robes,
Soon after this,
I was Little Bear to
Brauronian Artemis;
Then neckletted with figs,
Grown tall and pretty,
I was a Basket- bearer ...
(Lysistrata 641– 647)