Strong, Eugénie, 1860-1943 · New York, E. P. Dutton & company · leaf 314
looked upon asfertilising and generative powers of Nature, and more-over are peculiarly in place on a funerary monument,since the souls of the departed might become wind-spirits. The allusion in the images of this panel isevidently to the triumphant progress of the soul afterit has, like Heracles,… … Apotheosis of a Roman Emperor.British Museum. THE AFTER LIFE 227 with the Tyrlan Melkarth, part of whose legend heabsorbed into his own. At Tyre, at one of the greatfestivals, this Heracles-Melkarth was burned in efhgy,and Sir J. G. Frazer surmises that the festival wasidentical with the awakening…
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