[162] The prayer used in the worship of Dionysos at Elis, preserved by Plutarch, ended with "[Greek: Axie Taure--Axie Taure]," worthy bull! (_vide_ Bunsen's "Egypt," iv. 446.) Compare p. 215 with Dionysius = Bacchus = Noah; also of the three Samothracian names of the Kabiri--viz., Axieros, Axiokerse, Axiokersos. Bunsen says, "the syllable Axi or Axie which is found in all three, cannot be anything but the Greek word 'Axios,' which was used in the worship of Dionysos at Elis" (_id., vide infra_). On this symbol of the bull in connection with Noah and the Ark _vide_ Bryant (ii. 416, _et seq._ 439). He says, "Every personage that had any connection with the history of the Ark was described with some reference to this hieroglyphic ... that the Apis and Mnenis (Menes) were both representations of an _ancient personage_ is certain; and who that personage was may be known from the account given of him by Diodorus. He speaks of him by the name of Mnenes, but confines his history to Egypt, as the history of Saturn was limited to Italy; Inachus and Phoroneus to Argos; Deucalion to Thessaly ... the same person who in Crete was styled Minos, Min-nous, and whose city was Min-Noa; the same who was represented under the emblem of Men-taur, or Mino-taurus (_Minotaur_). Diodorus speaks of Mnenes as the _first lawgiver_," &c., &c.... [Mnenes or Menes may embody traditions of Noah and Misraim, as Osiris does of Adam and Noah.] At p. 422-435 [plate], we find Menes represented as a bull _with the sacred dove_.... Plutarch (Isis and Osiris) says the bulls, Apis and Mnenes, were sacred to Osiris ... and Eustath. (in Dion. v. 308) says of the Tauric Chersonese, "that the _Tauric_ nation was so named from the animal Taurus or bull, which was looked upon as a memorial of _the great husbandman_ Osiris, who first _taught agriculture_, and to whom was ascribed _the invention_ of the _plough_." ... Lycophron (v. 209 and scholia) says, [Greek: Tauros], [Greek: Dionysos]. Plutarch says Dionusus (_vide supra_, p. 203) was styled [Greek: Bougenês], or the offspring of a bull, by the people of Argos, who used to invoke him as a _resident of the sea_, and entreat him _to come out of the waters_. The author of the Orphic hymns calls him "Taurogenes." [Greek: Taurogenês Dionysos euphrosunên pore Thnêtois]. [Greek: Taurogenês], is precisely of the same purport as [Greek: Thêbaigenês] [ark-born], and the words of this passage certainly mean "that the ark-born deity Dionusus restored peace and happiness to mortals." [Noah's name in Scripture signifies "peace and consolation"--[Greek: Nôe hebraïsianapaysis] (rest), Hesychius.]... The title given to Diana--viz.