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They said that later this king went down alive to what the Greeks call Hades and there played dice with Demeter, and after winning some and losing some, came back with a gift from her of a golden hand towel.
They said that later this king went down alive to what the Greeks call Hades and there played dice with Demeter, and after winning some and losing some, came back with a gift from her of a golden hand towel.
[2] From the descent of
Rhampsinitus, when he came back, they said that the
Egyptians celebrate a festival, which I know that they celebrate to this day, but whether this is why they celebrate, I cannot say.
[3] On the day of the festival, the priests weave a cloth and bind it as a headband on the eyes of one of their number, whom they then lead, wearing the cloth, into a road that goes to the temple of
Demeter; they themselves go back, but this priest with his eyes bandaged is guided (they say) by two wolves
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to
Demeter's temple, a distance of three miles from the city, and led back again from the temple by the wolves to the same place.
Histories. Herodotus. ed. A.D. Godley. Cambridge. 1920-1925.
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