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 106
by serpents which coil them-selves around her. Possibly as goddess of the air she isgiven doves and other birds, as goddess of earth she is attended * Some hold these monstrous forms to be priests or priestesses in disguise,perhaps performing a kind of transformation dance. * Semele (mother of… … 31. Cretan Seai,s (from Zakro) ANCIENT GREECE by lions, and as goddess of the nether world she has theserpent, thus resembling the triform Hecate—who was moon-goddess Selene in heaven, the huntress Artemis on earth, andidentical with Persephone in Hades. According to the Theogony of Hesiod the nrst…
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