Servius, however, regards Glaucus as a doublet of vegetation deities.
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A "'vegetation deity "'is a nature deity whose disappearance and reappearance, or Norse myth of Ymir.
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That triviality is giving the concept its tendency to turn into a meaningless generality, as Walter Friedrich Otto remarked of trying to use a " name as futile and yet pretentious as'Vegetation deity'."