hered such expressions as "he has gold like muck," "he
must have a gold dropper at his house"; then the description of bloody
hemorrhoids as golden veins; the fabulous animals that produce as
excrement gold and precious things. Here belong also the golden ass [K. H.
M., No. 36], which at the word "Bricklebrit" begins "to spew gold from
before and behind," or [Pentam., No. 1], at the command, "arre cacaure,"
gives forth gold, pearls and diamonds as a priceless diarrhea. [Arre is a
word of encouragement like our get-up; cacuare is derived naturally from
cacare, kacken = to cack, perhaps with an echo of aurum, oro, gold.] It
occurs frequently in sagas that animal dung, e.g., horse manure, is
changed into gold as, inversely, gold sent by evil spirits is easily
turned [again] into dung. Gold is, in the ancient Babylonian way of
thinking, which passes over into many myths, muck of hell or the under
world. If a man buried a treasure so that no one should find it, he does
well to plant a cactus on the covered [treasure] as a guardian of the
gold, according to an old magical custom. An attenuation of the comparison
dung = gold seems to be coal = gold. In Stucken we find the comparison
excrement = Rheingold = sperm [S. A. M., p. 262] and connected with it
[pp. 266 ff.] a mass of material mythologically connected with it. I
mention the similar parallels derived from dream analysis (Stekel, Spr. d.
Tr., passim), further in particular the psychologically interesting
contributions of Freud on "Anal character" (Kl. Schr., pp. 132 ff.) like
Rank's contribution. (Jb. ps. F., IV, pp. 55 ff.)

Note C (280). According to Jung it is a characteristic of the totality of
the sun myth which relates that the "fundamental basis of the 'incestuous'
desire is not equivalent to cohabitation, but to the peculiar idea of
becoming a child again, to return to the parents' protection, to get back
into the mother again in order to be born again by the mother. On the way
to this goal stands incest, however, i.e., necessity in some way to get
back into the uterus again. One of the simplest ways was to fructify the
mother and procreate oneself again. Here the prohibition against incest
steps in, so now the sun myths and rebirth myths teem with all possible
proposals as to how one could encompass incest. A very significant way of
encompassing it is to change the mother into another being or rejuvenate
her, in order to make her vanish after the resulting birth [