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Rh thumb),[10] to whom the mother of the gods had taught the blacksmith's art. ("The key will scent the true place from all others! follow it down!—'t will lead thee to the Mothers!") They were the first leaders, the teachers of Orpheus, and invented the Ephesian magic formulas and the musical rhythms.[11] The characteristic disparity which is shown above in the Upanishad text, and in "Faust," is also found here, since the gigantic Hercules passed as an Idaean dactyl.

The colossal Phrygians, the skilled servants of Rhea,[12] were also Dactyli. The Babylonian teacher of wisdom, Oannes,[13] was represented in a phallic fish form.[14] The two sun heroes, the Dioscuri, stand in relation to the Cabiri;[15] they also wear the remarkable pointed head-*covering (Pileus) which is peculiar to these mysterious gods,[16] and which is perpetuated from that time on as a secret mark of identification. Attis (the elder brother of Christ) wears the pointed cap, just as does Mithra. It has also become traditional for our present-day chthonian infantile gods,[17] the brownies (Penates), and all the typical kind of dwarfs. Freud[18] has already called our attention to the phallic meaning of the hat in modern phantasies. A further significance is that probably the pointed cap represents the foreskin. In order not to go too far afield from my theme, I must be satisfied here merely to present the suggestion. But at a later opportunity I shall return to this point with detailed proof.

The dwarf form leads to the figure of the divine boy, the puer eternus, the young Dionysus, Jupiter Anxurus, Tages,[19] and so on. In the vase painting of Thebes,