| First: A boy reads the prelude to the ceremony while the candidate for initiation listens, standing with scarf on head and hand on hip. | Second: A Silenus plays the lyre and a Pan the flute, to show that music transforms bestiality. A female Pan offers her breast to a kid, who presumably symbolizes the candidate. |
| Third: A Satyr peers into a bowl and sees, instead of his own reflection, a grotesque mask which represents the grosser side of his nature which has to be put off. On the right, sadly damaged, Dionysus reclines with Ariadne in his arms. | Fourth: The initiate bares her back to the whipping which brings her into the ritual of death, to be followed by a spiritual rebirth. |