The Golden Bough-Third Edition

Abstract

This is the third part of The Golden Bough which takes the question, why had the King of the Wood at Nemi regularly to perish by the hand of his successor? In the first part of the work, reasons for thinking that the priest of Diana, who bore the title of King of the wood beside the still lake among the Alban Hills, personated the great god Jupiter or his duplicate Dianus, the deity of the oak, the thunder and the sky.