"This said, she drew aside her robes, and showed a sight of shame child Iacchus was there, and laughing, plunged his hand below her breasts. I will quote you the very lines of Orpheus, in order that you may have the originator of the mysteries as witness of their shamelessness: Demeter is pleased at the sight, and now at least receives the draught, - delighted by the spectacle! These are the secret mysteries of the Athenians! These are also the subjects of Orpheus' poems. Baubo is deeply hurt, thinking she has been slighted, and thereupon uncovers her secret parts and exhibits them to the goddess. She declines to take it, being unwilling to drink on account of her mourning. The following excerpt is taken from Clement of Alexandria's Exhortation to the Greeks, from a 1919 English translation:īaubo, having received Demeter as a guest, offers her a draught of wine and meal. Old nurses in Greek myth nearly always stand for the goddess as crone. Iambe and Baubo personify the obscene songs, in iambic metre, which were sung to relieve emotional tension at the Eleusinian Mysteries but Iambe, Demeter, and Baubo form the familiar triad of maiden, nymph, and crone. tried to console Demeter with comically lascivious verses, and a dry nurse, old Baubo, persuaded her to drink barley-water by a jest: she groaned as if in great travail and, unexpectedly, produced from beneath her skirt Demeter's own son Iacchus, who leapt into his mother's arms and kissed her. In The Greek Myths (1955), Robert Graves writes that when the disguised Demeter was the guest of King Celeus in Eleusis, the king's lame maid Iambe:
Known as the goddess of mirth, she is depicted as bawdy and sexually liberated, and is said to have jested with Demeter when that god was mourning the loss of her daughter, Persephone.
She is holding a lyre from Priene, Anatolia.īaubo ( Ancient Greek: Βαυβώ) is an old woman in Greek mythology which appears particularly in the myths of the early Orphic religion. Old woman character from Greek mythology A Greek terracotta figurine of Baubo, of the face-in-torso type.
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