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1) Chapter 49. Ancient Deities of Vegetation as Animals. § 1. Dionysus, the Goat and the Bull. Frazer, Sir James George. 1922. The Golden Bough
...form. May not this fact explain the relation in which certain animals stood to the ancient deities of vegetation, Dionysus, Demeter, Adonis, Attis, and Osiris? 1...

2) Deities. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898
...Youth: H b . Of course this is not meant for a complete list of heathen and pagan deities. Such a list would require a volume. 1...

3) XXII. d. The Water Deities. Vols. I & II: Stories of Gods and Heroes. Bulfinch, Thomas. 1913. Age of Fable
...of the waters in place of Oceanus and Tethys. 1 NEPTUNE NEPTUNE was the chief of the water deities. The symbol of his power was the trident, or spear with three points,...

4) XXXIV. b. Egyptian Deities. Vols. I & II: Stories of Gods and Heroes. Bulfinch, Thomas. 1913. Age of Fable
...unknown for centuries. 6 Milton, in his Hymn on the Nativity, alludes to the Egyptian deities, not as imaginary beings, but as real demons, put to flight by the coming...

5) Babes (Deities of). Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898
...Roman parents made an offering when an infant uttered its first word. CUBA (q.v.), the goddess who kept infants quiet in their cots. DOMIDU CA, the goddess who brought...

6) Sea Deities. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898
...Wife of Poseidon (3 syl.), queen goddess of the sea. 1 N.B. Neptune had no wife. 2 Doto, a sea-nymph, mentioned by Virgil. 3 Galat a, a daughter of Nereus. 4 Glaucus,...

7) Chapter 49. Ancient Deities of Vegetation as Animals. § 3. Attis, Adonis, and the Pig. Frazer, Sir James George. 1922. The Golden Bough
...PASSING now to Attis and Adonis, we may note a few facts which seem to show that these deities of vegetation had also, like other deities of the same class, their...

8) XXII. a. The Rural Deities. Vols. I & II: Stories of Gods and Heroes. Bulfinch, Thomas. 1913. Age of Fable
...the great Pan was dead, and that all the royalty of Olympus was dethroned and the several deities were sent wandering in cold and darkness. So Milton in his Hymn...

9) Chapter 49. Ancient Deities of Vegetation as Animals. § 4. Osiris, the Pig and the Bull. Frazer, Sir James George. 1922. The Golden Bough
...as the red oxen appear to have been, or whether they were not in origin entirely distinct deities who came to be fused with Osiris at a later time. The universality...

10) Chapter 49. Ancient Deities of Vegetation as Animals. § 5. Virbius and the Horse. Frazer, Sir James George. 1922. The Golden Bough
...Kings of the Wood at Aricia, had been killed in the character of Hippolytus by horses. Having found, first, that spirits of the corn are not infrequently represented...

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