was 13 years old when I wished to
become acquainted with an enormously large giantess, in whose body I might
take a walk, and where I could inspect everything. I would then make
myself quite comfortable and easy in the red cavern. I also phantasied a
swing that was hung 10 m. high in the body of this giantess. There I
wanted to swing up and down joyfully." This patient had carried over the
original proportion of foetus and mother to his present size. Now that he
was grown up, the body in which he could move had to be the body of a
giantess.

We shall now not be surprised at the flesh mountain Krun of the mandaean
Hibil-Ziwa saga or similar giant personalities. Hibil-Ziwa descended into
the world of darkness in order to get the answer to a question (i.e., once
more the treasure in the form of a marvelous word). He applied in vain to
different persons, but always had to go deeper and finally came to Krun,
from whom he forced the magic word.

The treasure or wonder working name comes from the depths according to the
hermetic cabbalistic conception also. David is supposed to have found at
the digging of the foundation of the temple, the Eben stijjah, Stone of
the Deeps, that unlocked the fountain of the great deep (I Mos., VII, 11,
and VIII, 12) and on which the Sem ha-mephoras, the outspoken name (of
God) was inscribed. This stone he brought into the holy of holies, and on
it the ark of the covenant was set. Fearless disciples of wisdom entered
at times into the sanctuary and had learned from the stone the name with
its combinations of letters in order to work wonders therewith.

In cases where the uterus is represented by the body cavity of a monster
the rebirth occurs most frequently by a spitting forth. Also the breaking
forth by means of tearing apart the uterus occurs, and in every case it
has the significance of a "powerfully tearing of oneself away," the
burning of bridges behind one, the final victory over the mother. To the
descent into the underworld (introversion) corresponds, as characteristic
of the subsequent rebirth, the rising to the light with the released
treasure (magic word as above, water of life, as in Ishtar's hell journey,
etc.).

A frequently used symbol for the released libido is the light, the sun.
Reborn sun figures, in connection with a daily and yearly up and down, are
also quite general. That the released libido appears thus may have several
reasons. External ones, like the life-imparting