never a temporal sovereign, i. 51;
an incarnation of the tree spirit, i. 106-108;
probability that he was formerly slain annually, i. 240, 241;
similarity to North European personages, i. 249, 250;
a personification of the oak, ii. [364];
probably burned in a fire of oak wood, ii. [363-365]
Kings—as gods, i. 8;
supposed to control the weather, i. 44-46;
punished for the failure of crops, i. 46-48;
killed, i. 48;