Endnote 21 – Marisa Tomb Paintings
Animals accompanying Dionysus in his retinue stand in sharp contrast to one another. The bull, goat and ass symbolize fertility and sexual desire, while the lion, panther and lynx symbolize a bloodthirsty desire to kill. See Walter F. Otto, Dionysiac Myth and Cult (Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press, 1965), pp. 110–111.