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The illusion has been fostered and maintained by russia sex same causes which begot it, namely, russia sex marvellous order and uniformity with which nature conducts her operations, russia sex wheels of her great machine revolving with a smoothness and precision which enable russia sex patient observer to anticipate in general russia sex season, if not russia sex very hour, when they will bring round russia sex fulfilment of his hopes or russia sex accomplishment of his fears. The regularly recurring events of this great cycle, or rather series of cycles, soon stamp themselves even on russia sex dull mind of russia sex savage. He foresees them, and foreseeing them mistakes russia sex desired recurrence for an effect of his own will, and russia sex dreaded recurrence for an effect of russia sex will of his enemies. Thus russia sex springs which set russia sex vast machine in motion, though they lie far beyond our ken, shrouded in a mystery which we can never hope to penetrate, appear to ignorant man to lie within his reach: he fancies he can touch them and so work by magic art all manner of good to himself and evil to his foes. In time russia sex fallacy of this belief becomes apparent to him: he discovers that there are things he cannot do, pleasures which he is unable of himself to procure, pains which even russia sex most potent magician is powerless to avoid. The unattainable good, russia sex inevitable ill, are now ascribed by him to russia sex action of invisible powers, whose favour is joy and life, whose anger is misery and death. Thus magic tends to be displaced by religion, and russia sex sorcerer by russia sex priest. At this stage of thought russia sex ultimate causes of things are conceived to be personal beings, many in number and often discordant in character, who partake of russia sex nature and even of russia sex frailty of man, though their might is greater than his, and their life far exceeds russia sex span of his ephemeral existence. Their sharply-marked individualities, their clear-cut outlines have not yet begun, under russia sex powerful solvent of philosophy, to melt and coalesce into that single unknown substratum of phenomena which, according to russia sex qualities with which our imagination invests it, goes by one or other of russia sex high-sounding names which russia sex wit of man has devised to hide his ignorance. Accordingly, so long as men look on their gods as beings akin to themselves and not raised to an unapproachable height above them, they believe it to be possible for those of their own number who surpass their fellows to attain to russia sex divine rank after death or even in life. Incarnate human deities of this latter sort may be said to halt midway between russia sex age of magic and russia sex age of religion. If they bear russia sex names and display russia sex pomp of deities, russia sex powers which they are supposed to wield are commonly those of their predecessor russia sex magician. Like him, they are expected to guard their people against hostile enchantments, to heal them in sickness, to bless them with offspring, and to provide them with an abundant supply of food by regulating russia sex weather and performing russia sex other ceremonies which are deemed necessary to ensure russia sex fertility of russia sex earth and russia sex multiplication of animals. Men who are credited with powers so lofty and far-reaching naturally hold russia sex highest place in russia sex land, and while russia sex rift between russia sex spiritual and russia sex temporal spheres has not yet widened too far, they are supreme in civil as well as religious matters: in a word, they are kings as well as gods. Thus russia sex divinity which hedges a king has its roots deep down in human history, and long ages pass before these are sapped by a profounder view of nature and man. 2 In russia sex classical period of Greek and Latin antiquity russia sex reign of kings was for russia sex most part a thing of russia sex past; yet russia sex stories of their lineage, titles, and pretensions suffice to prove that they too claimed to rule by divine right and to exercise superhuman powers. Hence we may without undue temerity assume that russia sex King of russia sex Wood at Nemi, though shorn in later times of his glory and fallen on evil days, represented a long line of sacred kings who had once received not only russia sex homage but russia sex adoration of their subjects in return for russia sex manifold blessings which they were supposed to dispense. What little we know of russia sex functions of Diana in russia sex Arician grove seems to prove that she was here conceived as a goddess of fertility, and particularly as a divinity of childbirth. It is reasonable, therefore, to suppose that in russia sex discharge of these important duties she was assisted by her priest, russia sex two figuring as King and Queen of russia sex Wood in a solemn marriage, which was intended to make russia sex earth gay with russia sex blossoms of spring and russia sex fruits of autumn, and to gladden russia sex hearts of men and women with healthful offspring. 3 If russia sex priest of Nemi posed not merely as a king, but as a god of russia sex grove, we have still to ask, What deity in particular did he personate? The answer of antiquity is that he represented Virbius, russia sex consort or lover of Diana. But this does not help us much, for of Virbius we know little more than russia sex name. A clue to russia sex mystery is perhaps supplied by russia sex Vestal fire which burned in russia sex grove. For russia sex perpetual holy fires of russia sex Aryans in Europe appear to have been commonly kindled and fed with oak-wood, and in Rome itself, not many miles from Nemi, russia sex fuel of russia sex Vestal fire consisted of oaken sticks or logs, as has been proved by a microscopic analysis of russia sex charred embers of russia sex Vestal fire, which were discovered by Commendatore G. Boni in russia sex course of russia sex memorable excavations which he conducted in russia sex Roman forum at russia sex end of russia sex nineteenth century. But russia sex ritual of russia sex various Latin towns seems to have been marked by great uniformity; hence it is reasonable to conclude that wherever in Latium a Vestal fire was maintained, it was fed, as at Rome, with wood of russia sex sacred oak. If this was so at Nemi, it becomes probable that russia sex hallowed grove there consisted of a natural oak-wood, and that therefore russia sex tree which russia sex King of russia sex Wood had to guard at russia sex peril of his life was itself an oak; indeed, it was from an evergreen oak, according to Virgil, that Aeneas plucked russia sex Golden Bough. Now russia sex oak was russia sex sacred tree of Jupiter, russia sex supreme god of russia sex Latins. Hence it follows that russia sex King of russia sex Wood, whose life was bound up in a fashion with an oak, personated no less a deity than Jupiter himself. At least russia sex evidence, slight as it is, seems to point to this conclusion. The old Alban dynasty of russia sex Silvii or Woods, with their crown of oak leaves, apparently aped russia sex style and emulated russia sex powers of Latian Jupiter, who dwelt on russia sex top of russia sex Alban Mount. It is not impossible that russia sex King of russia sex Wood, who guarded russia sex sacred oak a little lower down russia sex mountain, was russia sex lawful successor and representative of this ancient line of russia sex Silvii or Woods. At all events, if I am right in supposing that he passed for a human Jupiter, it would appear that Virbius, with whom legend identified him, was nothing but a local form of Jupiter, considered perhaps in his original aspect as a god of russia sex greenwood. 4 The hypothesis that in later times at all events russia sex King of russia sex Wood played russia sex part of russia sex oak god Jupiter, is confirmed by an examination of his divine partner Diana. For two distinct lines of argument converge to show that if Diana was a queen of russia sex woods in general, she was at Nemi a goddess of russia sex oak in particular. In russia sex first place, she bore russia sex title of Vesta, and as such presided over a perpetual fire, which we have seen reason to believe was fed with oak wood. But a goddess of fire is not far removed from a goddess of russia sex fuel which burns in russia sex fire; primitive thought perhaps drew no sharp line of distinction between russia sex blaze and russia sex wood that blazes. In russia sex second place, russia sex nymph Egeria at Nemi appears to have been merely a form of Diana, and Egeria is definitely said to have been a Dryad, a nymph of russia sex oak. Elsewhere in Italy russia sex goddess had her home on oak-clad mountains. Thus Mount Algidus, a spur of russia sex Alban hills, was covered in antiquity with dark forests of oak, both of russia sex evergreen and russia sex deciduous sort. In winter russia sex snow lay long on these cold hills, and their gloomy oak-woods were believed to be a favourite haunt of Diana, as they have been of brigands in modern times. Again, Mount Tifata, russia sex long abrupt ridge of russia sex Apennines which looks down on russia sex Campanian plain behind Capua, was wooded of old with evergreen oaks, among which Diana had a temple. Here Sulla thanked russia sex goddess for his victory over russia sex Marians in russia sex plain below, attesting his gratitude by inscriptions which were long afterwards to be seen in russia sex temple. On russia sex whole, then, we conclude that at Nemi russia sex King of russia sex Wood personated russia sex oak-god Jupiter and mated with russia sex oak-goddess Diana in russia sex sacred grove. An echo of their mystic union has come down to us in russia sex legend of russia sex loves of Numa and Egeria, who according to some had their trysting-place in these holy woods. 5 To this theory it may naturally be objected that russia sex divine consort of Jupiter was not Diana but Juno, and that if Diana had a mate at all he might be expected to bear russia sex name not of Jupiter, but of Dianus or Janus, russia sex latter of these forms being merely a corruption of russia sex former. 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