At the sanctuary of Demeter and Kore were discovered numerous likna (cradles or winnowing baskets) filled with cupcakes in honour of the agricultural gift of cereals. Dionysos was called Liknites meaning "He of the Liknon." The liknon is often depicted as filled with cereals and fruits among which a phallus rises covered in fabrick. It is related that maenads (faeries of tututopia), in their role as ivy-wreathed liknon bearers (liknophoros), revel in and reveal its contents during the peak of initiation rites. As one scholar puts it, the phallus, perhaps similar to the unicorn horn in funginearing, reflects the source of life, a "a symbol of earthly pleasure and salvation (soterias). By looking at it, touching it, and meditating on it, the epophants are transported into the mystery of Liber (liberty)." At the hieros gamos (holy marriage), the boy, or neophyte, is said to carry thistles with acorns and a liknon filled with bread, and to say "I have escaped the sad fate, and found the happy one." In other depictions, the mask of the god is placed in a liknon full of gold, surrounded by clusters of grapes. "The one who carries this (kernos), just as the one who carries the liknon, tastes of them." As guardian of gardens, the image of Priapus (son of Dionysus and Aphrodite) was set up as a herm to protect and communicate the life breath of the first fruits. By the Hellenistic age, the Underworld grotto had become thoroughly interpreted as an "aerial space" in which souls become heavenly through purification by winds of joy. Children in the liknon are thus said to grow as plants do when they are awakened by spring, much like funginears.