APPENDIX III 



ON THE SEX- SIGNIFICANCE OF 'TILTH' 



THIS matter is of special interest when we consider the Aryan 

 identification of goddesses of fertility and of agriculture. It has 

 already been noticed on pp. 27, 42, 44, 106, 123, 124 ftn., 169, 

 207. The widespread use of the tilth 'kenning' among the 

 Greeks is illustrated by the following passages, to which I have 

 been referred by my colleague, Professor Hausman : Aeschylus, 

 Septem contra Thebas 754; Sophocles, Oedipus Eex 1211, 1257, 

 1485, 1497, Antigone 569; Theognis, 525; Plato, Laws 839 A, 

 Cmtylus 406 B; Euripides, Troades 135, Medea 1281, Orestes 

 553, Phoenissae 18. Further, in the Attic law, TTCU&OV aporo-s 

 yvrja-iuv was the regular phase for ' the begetting of legitimate 

 children.' In Latin I may note the sex-significance of wmer, the 

 ploughshare, the use of the phrase ararefundum alienum for adultery, 

 and that of sukus, furrow, for the female pudenda. To the same 

 idea in Sanskrit reference has already been made on p. 199. 

 Turning to the Germanic dialects, we note the lines of Hofmanns- 

 waldau : 



im paradiesz da gieng man nackt und blosz, 

 und durfte frei die liebesacker pfliigen. 



In the Erzalilungen and Fastnachtspiele of the Middle Ages plough- 

 ing is used in the same sense, while furche is used much as sukus. 

 Thus- 



etlich die dick der wend abmessen, 

 visiren des nachts die maide dar durch 

 und ackern mer, dann einerlei furch. 



Ein spil von der Vasnacht, Keller, p. 386. 



