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Archaic England, an essay in deciphering prehistory from megalithic monuments, earthworks, customs, coins, placenames, and faeric superstitions (1919)

Bayley, Harold · London : Chapman & Hall ltd. · leaf 145

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The super-sacred tree at Dodona, as in Persia and elsewhere, was theoak, and the rustling of the wind in the leaves of the oakwas poetically regarded as the voice of the All-Father.The Hebrew for an oak tree is allon, elon, or allah, and11 have a chapter of evidence in MSS. supporting this…

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