the underworld (Ishtar's Hell Journey), into the belly of a
monster or the like. Remember, too, that the wanderer puts himself back in
his mother's womb. There is indeed the origin of his life. The process is
still more significantly worked out in the parable.

The wanderer (Section 11, after the garden episode) comes to the mill. The
water of the mill stream also plays a significant part in the sequel. The
reader will surely have already recognized what kind of a mill, what kind
of water is meant. I will rest satisfied with the mere mention of several
facts from folklore and dream-life.

Nork (Myth. d. Volkss., p. 301 f.) writes that Fenja is of the female sex
in the myth (Horwendil) which we must infer from her occupation, for in
antiquity when only hand mills were as yet in use, women exclusively did
this work. In symbolic language, however, the mill signifies the female
organ ({~GREEK SMALL LETTER MU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER UPSILON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER LAMDA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER LAMDA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON WITH OXIA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER FINAL SIGMA~} from which comes _mulier_) and as the man is the miller, the
satirist Petronius uses _molere mulierem_ = (grind a woman) for coitus,
and Theocritus (Idyll, IV, 48) uses {~GREEK SMALL LETTER MU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER UPSILON WITH OXIA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER LAMDA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER LAMDA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMEGA~} (I grind) in the same sense.
Samson, robbed of his strength by the harlot, has to grind in the mill
(Judges XVI, 21) on which the Talmud (Sota fol. 10) comments as follows:
By the grinding is always meant the sin of fornication (Beischlaf).
Therefore all the mills in Rome stand still at the festival of the chaste
Vesta. Like Apollo, Zeus, too, was a miller ({~GREEK SMALL LETTER MU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER UPSILON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER LAMDA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER UPSILON WITH OXIA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER FINAL SIGMA~}, Lykophron, 435), but
hardly a miller by profession, but only in so far as he presides over the
creative lifegiving principle of the propagation of creatures. It is now
demonstrated that every man is a miller and every woman a mill, from which
alone it may be conceived that every marriage is a milling (jede
Vermaehlung eine Vermehlung), etc. Milling (vermehlung) is connected with
the Roman confarreatio (a form of marriage); at engagements the Romans
used to mingle two piles of meal. In the same author (p. 303 and p. 5