[[920]]Vos, O, clarissima Mundi
Lumina, labentem Cœlo qui ducitis annum,
Liber, et alma Ceres.
[[921]]Quidam ipsum solem, ipsum Apollinem, ipsum Dionysium eundem esse volunt. Hence we find that Bacchus is the Sun, or Apollo; though supposed generally to have been a very different personage. In reality they are all three the same; each of them the Sun. He was the ruling Deity of the world:
[[922]]Ἡλιε παγγενετορ, παναιολε, χρυσεοφεγγες.
He was in Thrace esteemed, and worshipped as Bacchus, or Liber. [[923]]In Thraciâ Solem Liberum haberi, quem illi Sebadium nuncupantes magnâ religione celebrant: eique Deo in colle [[924]]Zemisso ædes dicata est specie rotundâ. In short, all the Gods were one, as we learn from the same Orphic Poetry:
[[925]]Ἑις Ζευς, ἑις Αϊδες, ἑις Ἡλιος, ἑις Διονυσος,
Ἑις θεος εν παντεσσι.
Some Deities changed with the season.
[[926]]Ηελιον δε θερους, μετοπωρης δ' ἁβρον Ιαω.