hunger the root of the worship of, v. 231;
perhaps originally a personification of wild vegetation, especially grass and trees, v. 233;
the gardens of, v. 236 sqq.;
rain-charm in the rites of, v. 237;
resemblance of his rites to the festival of Easter, v. 254 sqq., 306;
worshipped at Bethlehem, v. 257 sqq.;
and the planet Venus as the Morning Star, v. 258 sq.;
sometimes identified with Attis, v. 263;
swine not eaten by worshippers of, v. 265;
rites of, among the Greeks, v. 298;