 Frazer's thesis was developed in relation to J. M. W. Turner's painting of "The Golden Bough", a sacred grove where a certain tree grew day and night.It was a transfigured landscape in a dream-like vision of the woodland lake of Nemi, "Diana's Mirror", where religious ceremonies and the "fulfillment of vows" of priests and kings were held.The king was the incarnation of a dying and reviving god, a solar deity who underwent a mystic marriage to a goddess of the Earth.