INITIATION - GOLDEN ASS A woman takes Lucius the Ass to her bed. The story of the Golden Ass is an initiation tale, recounting various indignities and outrages experienced by Lucius, who is transformed into the body of an ass, but with final initiation in the mysteries of the goddess Isis. From a 19th century Italian edition of Lucius Apuleius, The Golden Ass.

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