Hercules eluded the onset, and seizing one of the huge horns, held it so firmly that it was broken off by the furious efforts of Achelous to free himself. […] It was cleansed by turning the river Alpheus through it. […] Some writers say that it fell from the skies. […] A rural divinity that presided over the corn while it was being ground. […] The priest then took a cup of wine, tasted it, and handed it to the bystanders to taste also; some of it was then poured between the horns of the victim, and a few of the saturated hairs were pulled off and put in the fire which was burning on the altar.