Baubo is an old woman in Greek mythology who appears particularly in the myths of the early Orphic religion. Known as the Goddess of Mirth, she was bawdy, sexually liberated and is said to have jested with Demeter, when Demeter was mourning the loss of her daughter, Persephone, who had been violently abducted by Hades, the god of the underworld. Baubo was an old nurse who cheered up the goddess Demeter, by pulling up her dress to expose her genitals. Different versions of this tale provide very different images of what Demeter saw under Baubo’s skirt. But whatever she saw,…
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