IX. THE RITUAL OF ADONIS. Results of the preceding inquiry, Festivals of the death and resurrection of Adonis, The festival at Alexandria, The festival at Byblus, 184; The anemone and the red rose the flowers of Adonis, Festivals of Adonis at Athens and Antioch, Resemblance of these rites to Indian and European ceremonies, The death and resurrection of Adonis a myth of the decay and revival of vegetation, Tammuz or Adonis as a corn- spirit bruised and ground in a mill, The mourning for Adonis interpreted as a harvest rite, Adonis probably a spirit of wild fruits before he became a spirit of the cultivated corn, Propitiation of the corn-spirit perhaps fused with the worship of the dead, The festival of the dead a festival of flowers.
