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22 The Golden Bough (Third Edition, Vol. 7 of 12)[014]king of all the gods of the world.” 51 Such traditions point to acustom of temporarily investing the king's son with the royaldignity as a preliminary to sacrificing him instead of his father.Pomegranates were supposed to have sprung from the bloodof Dionysus, as anemones from the blood of Adonis and violetsfrom the blood of Attis: hence women refrained from eatingseeds of pomegranates at the festival of the Thesmophoria. 52According to some, the severed limbs of Dionysus were piecedtogether, at the command of Zeus, by Apollo, who buried themon Parnassus. 53 The grave of Dionysus was shewn in the Delphictemple beside a golden statue of Apollo. 54 However, accordingto another account, the grave of Dionysus was at Thebes, wherehe is said to have been torn in pieces. 55 Thus far the resurrectionof the slain god is not mentioned, but in other versions of themyth it is variously related. According to one version, whichrepresented Dionysus as a son of Zeus and Demeter, his motherpieced together his mangled limbs and made him young again. 56In others it is simply said that shortly after his burial he rose fromthe dead and ascended up to heaven; 57 or that Zeus raised him51 Proclus on Plato, Cratylus, p. 59, quoted by E. Abel, Orphica, p. 228.Compare Chr. A. Lobeck, Aglaophamus, pp. 552 sq.52 Clement of Alexandria, Protrept. ii. 19. Compare id. ii. 22; Scholiast onLucian, Dial. Meretr. vii. p. 280, ed. H. Rabe.53 Clement of Alexandria, Protrept. ii. 18; Proclus on Plato's Timaeus, iii. p.200 D{FNS, quoted by Lobeck, Aglaophamus, p. 562, and by Abel, Orphica,p. 234. Others said that the mangled body was pieced together, not by Apollobut by Rhea (Cornutus, Theologiae Graecae Compendium, 30).54 Ch. A. Lobeck, Aglaophamus, pp. 572 sqq. See The Dying God, p. 3.For a conjectural restoration of the temple, based on ancient authorities and anexamination of the scanty remains, see an article by J. H. Middleton, in Journalof Hellenic Studies, ix. (1888) pp. 282 sqq. The ruins of the temple have nowbeen completely excavated by the French.55 S. Clemens Romanus, Recognitiones, x. 24 (Migne's Patrologia Graeca, i.col. 1434).56 Diodorus Siculus, iii. 62.57 Macrobius, Comment. in Somn. Scip. i. 12. 12; Scriptores rerum mythicarumLatini tres Romae nuper reperti (commonly referred to as Mythographi