The herb Moly in Homer

​Hugo Rahner, Greek Myths and Christian Mystery (1963):
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We can conclude from this that from the very beginning Homer’s moly was a thing surrounded by mystery and that it is not the botanists but the mythologists who are really in a position to tell us the truth about it. Unfortunately, it is precisely what the mythologists have to tell us that has tended to be neglected, and even the most recent and learned discussions of the matter are content to relegate the question of this mythical symbolism to a couple of lines. In particular the story of the Christian symbolism connected with the “soul-healing flower” has received deplorably little attention and it is this that I shall make the starting-point of my enquiry.