Orpheus, prophet and musician, i. 55; the legend of his death, ii. 99 Orwell in Cambridgeshire, harvest custom at, i. 237 _n._ 4 Oschophoria, vintage festival at Athens, ii. 258 _n._ 6 Osirian mysteries, the hall of the, at Abydos, ii. 108 Osiris identified with Adonis and Attis, i. 32, ii. 127 _n._; myth of, ii. 3 _sqq._; his birth, 6; introduces the cultivation of corn and the vine, 7, 97, 112; his violent death, 7 _sq._; at Byblus, 9 _sq._, 22 _sq._, 127; his body rent in pieces, 10; the graves of, 10 _sq._; his dead body sought and found by Isis, 10, 50, 85; tradition as to his genital organs, 10, 102; mourned by Isis and Nephthys, 12; invited to come to his house, 12, 47; restored to life by Isis, 13; king and judge of the dead, 13 _sq._; his body the first mummy, 15; the funeral rites performed over his body the model of all funeral rites in Egypt, 15; all the Egyptian dead identified with, 16; his trial and acquittal in the court of the gods, 17; represented in art as a royal mummy, 18; specially associated with Busiris and Abydos, 18; his tomb at Abydos, 18 _sq._, 197 _sq._; official festivals of, 49 _sqq._; his sufferings displayed in a mystery at night, 50; his festival in the month of Athyr, 84 _sqq._; dramatic representation of his resurrection in his rites, 85; his images made of vegetable mould, 85, 87, 90 _sq._, 91; the funeral rites of, described in the inscription of Denderah, 86 _sqq._; his festival in the month of Khoiak, 86 _sqq._, 108 _sq._; his “garden,” 87 _sq._; ploughing and sowing in the rites of, 87, 90, 96; the burial of, in his rites, 88; the holy sepulchre of, under Persea-trees, 88; represented with corn sprouting from his dead body, 89; his resurrection depicted on the monuments, 89 _sq._; as a corn-god, 89 _sqq._, 96 _sqq._; corn-stuffed effigies of, buried with the dead as a symbol of resurrection, 90 _sq._, 114; date of the celebration of his resurrection at Rome, 95 _n._ 1; the nature of, 96 _sqq._; his severed limbs placed on a corn-sieve, 97; human victims sacrificed by kings at the grave of, 97; suggested explanations of his dismemberment, 97; sometimes explained by the ancients as a personification of the corn, 107; as a tree-spirit, 107 _sqq._; his image made out of a pine-tree, 108; his emblems the crook and scourge or flail, 108, 153, compare 20; his backbone represented by the _ded_ pillar, 108 _sq._; interpreted as a cedar-tree god, 109 _n._ 1; his soul in a bird, 110; represented as a mummy enclosed in a tree, 110, 111; obscene images of, 112; as a god of fertility, 112 _sq._; identified with Dionysus, 113, 126 _n._ 3; a god of the dead, 113 _sq._; universal popularity of his worship, 114; interpreted by some as the sun, 120 _sqq._, reasons for rejecting this interpretation, 122 _sqq._;