Was it haply, when you did bring into being Dionysus of the flowing locks, who is
enthroned beside Demeter of the clashing cymbals? (Pindar, Isthmian VII, 3-5)
Sow then some seed of fame athwart the isle, that Zeus, the lord of Olympus, gave to Persephone, and shook his locks in token unto her that, as queen of the teeming earth, the fertile island of Sicily would be raised to renown by the wealth of her glorious cities. (Pindar The Nemean Odes I, 14)
… And with befitting counsel, while he tends, not only the worship of Demeter with the ruddy feet, and the festival of her daughter with her white horses, (Pindar, Olympian Odes VI, 95)
… having, by happy fortune, culled the fruit of the rite that releases from toil. And, while the body of all men is subject to over-mastering death, an image of life remains alive, for it alone comes from the gods. But it sleeps, while the limbs are active; yet, to them that sleep in many a dream it gives presage of a decision of things delightful or doleful. (Pindar Fragment 96)
Blessed is he who has seen these things before he goes beneath the earth; for he understands the end of mortal life, and the beginning (of a new life) given of god. (Pindar, Fragment 102)
the slow rivers of dark night, the sluggish gift of sleep
