Graves writes:
[[File:Baubo figurine.jpg|thumb|188px|right|A face-in-body Baubo figurine.]]
{{quotation|[[Iambe]] and Baubo personify the obscene songs, in [[Iamb (poetry)|iambic metre]], which were sung to relieve emotional tension at the [[Eleusinian Mysteries]]; but Iambe, Demeter, and Baubo form the familiar [[Triple deity|triad]] of [[Virginity|maiden]], [[nymph]], and [[crone]]. Old nurses in Greek myth nearly always stand for the goddess as crone.<ref>''Ibid''., p. 96.</ref>}}