of place, yet I cannot but own my strong confidence in the correctness of the general conclusions arrived at; and I gladly take this opportunity of expressing a deep sense of thankfulness to those great minds of the past and of the present, whose previous labours have alone rendered the compilation of this work possible. BARTON-UPON-HUMBER: Jan. 1, 1877. Subsection I.-The Episode of Lykourg os. Consideration of П. vi. 128-41 Homerik consistency as shown in the conduct of Diomedes. Consideration of Od. xi. 321 Nysa and Dionysos. Subsection IV.-Dionysos and the Tyrsenoi. The legend of the Homerik Hymn Subsection V.-The Youth of Dionysos. The impersonation of joyous country life. 40 The Orphik ritual not derived from Kam Quotation from the Batrachoi. Bunsen and Bishop Browne on the Oracle The Aryan and Semitic Sun-gods Subsection III.-Dionysos the Demiurge. Consideration of Orphik Fragment vii. Pantheism, or God in All as opposed to All in God The Demiurge reduces the Universe to order And is manifested chiefly in a Solar aspect Bishop Colenso on the Iao-myth. Iao a name of the Hebrew Yahveh Subsection VII.-Eikon of the Orphik Dionysos. The solar Demiurge 70 |