Baubo

[1] A fragment from Asclepiades of Tragilus states that she is the wife of Dysaules, who was said to be autochthonous, that they had two daughters — Protonoe and Misa — and that the couple welcomed Demeter into their house.

[6] Whilst the goddess Demeter is at Eleusis, mourning the loss of her daughter Persephone who had been abducted by Hades, Baubo makes her laugh through an act of Anasyrma.

49) of a hymn relating the abduction of Persephone, Baubo is the name of the mother of Demophon — a mortal child whom Demeter unsuccessfully attempts to turn immortal by anointing him with ambrosia and placing him nightly in the fire.

[12] It is preserved in the Protrepticus of Clement of Alexandria, written in the second century CE:[13] This said, she drew aside her robes, and showed A sight of shame; child Iacchus was there, And laughing, plunged his hand below her breasts.

The context he provides for the quote is that Demeter had rested at Eleusis during her search for her daughter, and Baubo, treating her as a guest, had offered her food and wine.

He also includes the Orphic quote, but the text contains substantial differences: his reporting of the lines suggests that Baubo drew a face on her abdomen and shaved her pubic hair.

[19] The Christian historian and polemicist Eusebius also recorded the fragment in his Praeparatio evangelica (2.3.30–5), written the early fourth century CE.

These date from the third to second century BCE and depict the naked lower part of a female body with a face where the abdomen should be, with the curve of the chin merging into the vulva.