Note 1251 — Chapter X · ORPHIC MYSTERIES.

M. Salomon Reinach, who has done so much for the elucidation of Orphism, has shown that the Celts held in honour and depicted on their monuments a horned snake. Such a conception would keep up the confusion of bull and snake. He believes the original form of Zagreus to have been that of a horned snake. The point is an interesting one and is evidence of Northern elements in Orphic as well as Dionysiac conceptions, see Rev. Arch. 1899, vol. XXXV. p. 210, S. Reinach, ‘Zagreus le serpent cornu.’