" "Non ulli pastos illis egre diebus Frigida (Daphne) boves ad flumina, nulla nec amnem

La bocca sollevò dal fiero pasto Quel peccator, forbendola a' capelli Del capo ch' egli avea diretro guasto: Poi cominciò: tu vuoi ch' i' rinnovelli Disperato dolor the 'l cuor mi preme Già pur pensando, pria ch' i' ne favelli.

Like it they were all funereal in their character: they began in sorrow and lamentation, they ended in joy; there was an aphanism, or burial; a pastos, or grave; an euresis, or discovery of what had been lost; and a legend, or mythical relation,all of which were entirely and profoundly symbolical in their character.

Here we find, among the various ceremonies which assimilated these rites to Freemasonry, the aphanism, which was the disappearance or death; the pastos, the couch, coffin, or grave; the euresis, or the discovery of the body; and the autopsy, or full sight of everything, that is, the complete communication of the secrets.

After a variety of preparatory ceremonies, intended to call forth all his courage and fortitude, the aphanism or mystical death of Dionysus was figured out in the ceremonies, and the shrieks and lamentations of the initiates, with the confinement or burial of the candidate on the pastos, couch, or coffin, constituted the first part of the ceremony of initiation.

It is the analogue of the Pastos, Couch, or Coffin, which was to be found in the ritual of all the pagan Mysteries.

This cell or couch, technically called the "pastos," was adopted as a symbol of the being whose death and resurrection or apotheosis, was represented in the legend.

In the Master's degree, a symbol which is the analogue of the pastos, or couch, in the ancient Mysteries.

There, protruding formidable abdomens pressed closely against each other, huge casks contained the martial Spanish wines, sherry and its derivatives, the san lucar, pasto, pale dry, oloroso and amontilla.