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 293
n townof Ana or Ona, and are somewhat suggestive of the mythictale that Minerva sprang from the head of Jove: thehorses on the Gaulish coin illustrated in Fig. 130, which isattributed either to Verdun or Vermandois, are inscribedVero Iove and that Jou was the White Horse is, to someextent, implied… … Fig. 130.—Gaulish. From Akerman. that the Jehu who drove furiously was a memory of thesolar charioteer ; it is further probable that the story of lo,the divinely fair daughter of Inachus, who was said to havebeen pursued over the world by a malignant gadfly, origin-ated in the lumpish imagination…
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