suggested explanations of his dismemberment, vi. 97, vii. 262;

sometimes explained by the ancients as a personification of the corn, vi. 107;

as a tree-spirit, vi. 107 sqq.;

his image made out of a pine-tree, vi. 108;

his backbone re-presented by the ded pillar, vi. 108 sq.;

interpreted as a cedar-tree god, vi. 109 n. 1;

his soul in a bird, vi. 110;

represented as a mummy enclosed in a tree, vi. 110, 111;

obscene images of, vi. 112;

as a god of fertility, vi. 112 sq.;