Much thanks...still find these women truely primative. Even if they were starving, to tear men or animals apart and eat the flesh raw! We see people experienceing famine, and they still have a certain dignity. These women also appear in the myth of Orpheus. They seem to be a metaphor for base primitive instinct. The whole Dionysian thing seems related to base instinct. It can not be denied. It must be aknowledged. These instincts are transformed by the god Apollo. Apollo overcomes the python of Delphi. To me this is all very symbolic.