§ 1. _Numa and Egeria_—Egeria a nymph of water and the oak, perhaps a
form of Diana; marriage of Numa and Egeria a reminiscence of the
marriage of the King of Rome to a goddess of water and vegetation.
§ 2. _The King as Jupiter_—The Roman king personated Jupiter and wore
his costume; the oak crown as a symbol of divinity; personation of the
dead by masked men among the Romans; the kings of Alba as
personifications of Jupiter; legends of the deaths of Roman kings point
to their connexion with the thunder-god; local Jupiters in Latium; the
oak-groves of ancient Rome; Latian Jupiter on the Alban Mount; woods of
Latium in antiquity; Latin worship of Jupiter like the Druidical worship
of the oak; sacred marriage of Jupiter and Juno; Janus and Carnathe
Flamen Dialis and Flaminica as representatives of Jupiter and Juno;
marriage of the Roman king to the oak-goddess.