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Baubo (Ancient Gr****: Βαυβώ) is a
minor figure in Gr****
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...
- 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...
- 95). Weir and
Jerman explore the
possible influence of the
ancient Gr****
Baubo figurine on the motif, but they
acknowledge the link is tenuous. They write...
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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 ****phone.
Baubo then...
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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...
- 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...
- context,
claiming that
their purpose was to
shame an
immoral woman.
Anasyrma Baubo Lajja Gauri Nin-imma
Sheela na gig Yoni
Dilukai from the
Caroline Islands...
- (edited by Devereux),
Paris 1981
Femme et Mythe, Paris: Flammarion, 1982
Baubo, la
vulve mythique, Paris: J.-C. Godefroy, 1983 The
character of the Euripidean...
