as a god of fertility, [112] sq.;
identified with Dionysus, [113], [126] n. 3;
a god of the dead, [113] sq.;
universal popularity of his worship, [114];
interpreted by some as the sun, [120] sqq., reasons for rejecting this interpretation, [122] sqq.;
his death and resurrection interpreted as the decay and growth of vegetation, [126] sqq.;
his body broken into fourteen parts, [129];
interpreted as the moon by some of the ancients, [129];
reigned twenty-eight years, [129];
his soul thought to be imaged in the sacred bull Apis, [130];