Eranos-Jahrbuch: "the psychology of the Demeter cult bears all the features of a matriarchal order of society, where [men are] an indispensable but on the whole disturbing factor"
Engelsman adds (164, in endnote): "Certainly the [Demeter-Kore] myth is saturated with women: Demeter, Persephone, Hecate, Rhea, Iambe, the daughters and wife of Celeus, the playmates of Persephone"