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    Baubo (Ancient Greek: Βαυβώ) is a minor figure in Greek mythology who does not appear in surviving sources before the fourth century CE. A fragment from...
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    certain religious rituals, eroticism, and lewd jokes (see, for example, Baubo). The term is used in describing corresponding works of art. Anasyrma may...
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  • was also possibly involved in an Eleusinian myth in which the old woman Baubo, by exposing her genitals, cheered up the mourning Demeter. Iacchus was...
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    named Baubo received Demeter as her guest and offered her a meal and wine. Demeter declined them both because she mourned the loss of Persephone. Baubo then...
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     95). Weir and Jerman explore the possible influence of the ancient Greek Baubo figurine on the motif, but they acknowledge the link is tenuous. They write...
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    Goode explores the image and possible meanings of the Sheela na gig and Baubo images in particular, but writes also about the recurring image worldwide...
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    might have originated from Demeter's mystery cults, alongside figures like Baubo and the daughters of Celeus. On the other hand, it has been argued that...
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    fortune in the Zoroastrian hierarchy of yazatas. Eleusinian Mysteries: Baubo (goddess of mirth), Demeter (goddess of the harvest) and Persephone (goddess...
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  • and others that she had cheered Demeter by a dance in the Iambic metre. Baubo The Lay of Narcissus Apollodorus, 1.5.1; Diodorus Siculus, 5.4; Photius...
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    Amherst, New York: Cambria Press, 2010 Kamakhya Dilukai Sheela na gig Baubo Nin-imma "Lotus-Headed Fertility Goddess Lajja Gauri". Metropolitan Museum...
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