Ancient Greece : a sketch of its art, literature & philosophy viewed in connexion with its external history from earliest times to the age of Alexander the Great (1915)
Cotterill, H. B. (Henry Bernard), b. 1846 · London : G. G. Harrap · leaf 105
TERING Sacred Tree ANCIENT GREECE of bird, beast, and human being. Perhaps they were used ascharms.^ But the most important fact of this nature that has beenbrought to hght by excavation is that the most ancient Cretandeity was a goddess whom we meet in Greek mythologyunder various names—for… … 30. The lyADY OF WitD Creatures closely related to this ancient Cretan goddess. We find her,pictured amidst all kinds of wild animals, as the goddess ofnature, the Lady of Wild Creatures [iroTiia 6)]pow), as wasthe later Artemis. Frequently, as we have already seen,she is attended by lions, or by…
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