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 (1913)
Cotterill, H. B. (Henry Bernard), b. 1846 · New York, Frederick A. Stokes Company · leaf 116
ANCIENT GREECE Oriental deity, such as Moloch, or from the bull-Dionysus of Thrace, of whose orgies I have already spoken, it is impossible to feel certain. " Of the ritual of the Bull-god in Crete," says Miss Harrison, " we know that it consisted in part of the tearing and eating of a bull ; and… … 32. The Return of the Earth-Maiden (here Pandora) have himself been sacrificed in the Dictaean cave at the end of his nine years of sovereignty. The later legend makes Zeus the original Phoenician-Cretan Bull-god, and Minos his son, but it seems more likely that the monstrous deity existed in Crete…
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