How may the gods be divided? […]  2. — The division of the year alluded to by the second fable, may be explained in two different ways. […]  3. — Allegorically, Proserpine may stand for the seed, and Ceres, for the fertility of the earth. […] However learned this explanation may be, it is novel, and not generally adopted. […] This fable may be considered as a corrupted tradition of the fall of the walls of Jericho.