dex, s.v.
_Corn-spirit_.

[486] Cf. below, Sec. 751 ff.

[487] The connection between such posts and the
North-Semitic goddess Ashera is uncertain.

[488] Ward, _Seal-cylinders of Western Asia_.

[489] Cf. the suggestion of A. Reville (in his _Prolegomenes
de l'histoire des religions_) that images arose in part from
natural woods bearing a fancied resemblance to the human
form.

[490] Boas, _The Kwakiutl_; Swanton, "Seattle Totem Pole,"
in _Journal of American Folklore_ vol. xviii, no. 69 (April,
1905).

[491] See below, "Totemism," Sec. 449 f.

[492] Crooke, _Popular Religion and Folklore of Northern
India_, ii, 115 ff.

[493] Pausanias, x, 31, 4; Roscher, _Lexikon_, article
"Meleagros."

[494] Frazer, _Golden Bough_, 2d ed., iii, 391 ff.

[495] Gen. iii; cf. Hopkins, in _Journal of the American
Oriental Society_, September, 1910. Whether the golden
apples of the Hesperides had the life-giving quality is
doubtful.

[496] This appears from a comparison of Gen. iii, 3 with ii,
17.

[497] Gen. iii, 5, 22.

[498] He is, perhaps, a diminished and conventionalized form
of the old chaos dragon.

[499] On the various names and characters of this cosmic
tree see Saussaye, _Religion of the Teutons_, p. 347 ff.

[500] _Rig-Veda_, x, 81, 4.

[501] 2 Sam. v, 24.

[502] Judg. ix, 37.

[503] See below, Sec. 935 ff.

[504] This is the case with all spirits that social needs do
not force man to give names to.

[505] Rhys Davids, _Buddhist India_, p. 232.

[506] See above, Sec. 252 f.

[507] Ex. iii, 2 ff.; Deut. xxxiii, 16; Acts vii, 30, 35.

[508] See _Journal of the American Oriental Society_, xxx,
353 f., for possible examples.

[509] A list of such titles is given by C. Boetticher in his
_Baumkultus der Hellenen und Roemer_, chap. iv.

[510] Dionysos is a bull-god as well as a tree-god.

[511] _Dawn of Civilization_, p. 12.

[512] Hopkins, _Religions of India_, p. 533.

[513] On the Soma cult see above, Sec. 270.

[514] Sec. 271.

[515] Lev. xvi.

[516] Gruppe, _Culte und Mythen_; Roscher, _Lexikon_. Cf.
the developed cults of Vishnu and Civa.

[517] On Osiris and Isis see below, Sec. 728 f.

[518] Some instances of worship are given in Frazer's
_Golden Bough_, 2d ed., i, 181, 189, 191. Frazer sometimes
uses the term 'tree worship' where all that is meant is
respect for tre