The Golden Bough (Third Edition, Vol. 7 of 12) - Mirrors

10 The Golden Bough (Third Edition, Vol. 7 of 12)[004]but draped in a mantle, with a bearded mask to represent the head,and with leafy boughs projecting from the head or body to shewthe nature of the deity. 6 , 44; Daremberg et Saglio, Dictionnairedes Antiquités Grecques et Romaines, i. 361, 626 sq.On a vase his rude effigy is depicted appearing out of a low treeor bush. 7 At Magnesia on the Maeander an image of Dionysus issaid to have been found in a plane-tree, which had been brokenby the wind. 8 He was the patron of cultivated trees; 9 prayerswere offered to him that he would make the trees grow; 10 and hewas especially honoured by husbandmen, chiefly fruit-growers,who set up an image of him, in the shape of a natural tree-stump,in their orchards. 11 He was said to have discovered all tree-fruits,amongst which apples and figs are particularly mentioned; 12 .and he was referred to as “well-fruited,” “he of the green fruit,”and “making the fruit to grow.” 13 One of his titles was “teeming”or “bursting” (as of sap or blossoms); 14 and there was a FloweryDionysus in Attica and at Patrae in Achaia. 15 The Athenianssacrificed to him for the prosperity of the fruits of the land. 16Amongst the trees particularly sacred to him, in addition to the6 See the pictures of his images, drawn from ancient vases, in C. Bötticher'sBaumkultus der Hellenen (Berlin, 1856), plates 42, 43, 43 A{FNS, 43 B{FNS7 Daremberg et Saglio, op. cit. i. 626.8 P. Wendland und O. Kern, Beiträge zur Geschichte der griechischenPhilosophie und Religion (Berlin, 1895), pp. 79 sqq.; Ch. Michel, Recueil d'Inscriptions Grecques (Brussels, 1900), No. 856.9 Cornutus, Theologiae Graecae Compendium, 30.10 Pindar, quoted by Plutarch, Isis et Osiris, 35.11 Maximus Tyrius, Dissertat. viii. 1.12 Athenaeus, iii. chs. 14 and 23, pp. 78 C{FNS, 82 D{FNS13 Orphica, Hymn l. 4. liii. 8.14 Aelian, Var. Hist. iii. 41; Hesychius, s.v. Φλέω[ς]. Compare Plutarch,Quaest. Conviv. v. 8. 3.15 Pausanias, i. 31. 4; id. vii. 21. 6.16 Dittenberger, Sylloge Inscriptionum Graecarum, 2 No. 636, vol. ii. p. 435,τῶν καρπῶν τῶν ἐν τῇ χώρᾳ. However, the words may equally well refer tothe cereal crops.