Note 147 — Chapter I · THE KING OF THE WOOD
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Strabo, xiv. I. 23, p. 641. That a goddess of fertility should be served by such ministers may strike us as a contradiction. Yet it is typical of the Oriental worship of the great Mother Goddess. I have suggested an explanation of the custom elsewhere. See Adonis, Attis, Osiris, Second Edition, pp. 236 sqq.