fasting on the sacred days of the Rarian Demeter. (Callimachus, Aetia 10)
It is a great blessing for you that you have not seen the rites of the dread goddess, or else you would have spewed up their story too. (Callimachus, Aetia 75)
As the basket comes, greet it, you women, saying “Demeter, greatly hail! Lady of much bounty, of many measures of corn.” As the basket comes, from the ground you shall see it, you uninitiated, And gaze not from the roof or from aloft – child nor wife nor maid that has shed her hair – neither then nor when we spit from parched mouths fasting. Hesperus from the clouds marks the time of its coming: Hesperus, who alone persuaded Demeter to drink, that time she pursued the unknown tracks of her stolen daughter. Lady, how were your feet able to carry you to the West, to the black men and where the golden apples are? You did not drink nor did you eat during that time nor did you wash. Thrice did you cross Achelous with his silver eddies and as often did you pass over each of the ever-flowing rivers, and thrice did you seat yourself on the ground beside the fountain Callichorus, parched and without drinking, and did not eat nor wash. Nay, nay, let us not speak of that which brought the tear to Deo! Better to tell how she gave to cities pleasing ordinances; better to tell how she was the first to cut straw and holy sheaves of corn-ears and put an oxen to tread them, that time Triptolemus was taught the good craft.
(Callimachus. To Demeter 1-24)
You sat at the well Callichoron, without news of your child. (Callimachus: Fragment 611)