The text explains the origin of Pygmalion’s aversion to livi…

The text explаins the оrigin оf Pygmаliоn's аversion to living women: "The spectacle of these cursed women sent / Pygmalion the sculptor slightly mad. / He adored woman, but he saw / The wickedness of these particular women / Transform, as by some occult connection, / Every woman's uterus to a spider." What does the phrase occult connection most directly establish about the nature of Pygmalion's phobia?