La fuga di Mirrah

This is the allegory of the story of Mirrah and the incest committed with her father (the dragon placed at the top of the castle-wig, of alchemical red color, an attribute of action and carnal instinct). She sees the world as a game, hence the colorful and childlike world, where the ancient carnal instinct (colored dinosaurs) prevails over the spiritual one. Mirrah falls in love with her father Cinira, and tricks him into joining her. After discovering the deception, Cinira draws her sword and chases Mirrah. She escapes through Arabia, and nine months later, she turns to the Gods for help. They take pity on her and transform her into what is now the myrrh tree. While in the form of a plant, she gives birth to Adonis, one of the fathers of the Sacred Mysteries, the religious school of the Greco-Roman world reserved for initiated participants (mystai). The aromatic resin of the myrrh tree is nothing but the tears of Mirrah.