concomitant of Zagreus

its oneiric significance

"a thyrsos {pinecone-tipped pine-frond} ...

pineal gland (producing melatonin to provide sleep according to praevalence of darkness) as locus of Ajn~a cakra

a giddy spinning top, and

to indicate seeking the effect from piroutetting one's dream-body in a dream : being transported by such whirling into a more esoteric dream-world

a mirror ... .

to indicate seeking the effect from viewing and manipulating a dream-mirror in the dream-world : one's fingers elongate, extending strandlike out of mirror until mirror may suck on into another world

As the child was gazing at himself in the mirror,

to indicate that gazing at the reflection of one's dream-body in the dream-world will induce alterations in it

they seized him, tore his body into ... pieces ...;

typical of one type of dream-experience initiating into shamanhood

boiled and roasted ... them.

typical of another type of dream-experience initiating into shamanhood