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 109
consecration and the doubleaxe (see the Cretan Sarcophagus, Fig. 25) are the commonest.The horns (reminding one of the horns of the Jewish altar,and evidently connected with the worship of a Bull-god—^possibly Moloch) are depicted frequently in frescoes andon seals when any religious scene is… … Griffins and Pn:,i,AR ANCIENT GREECEIn the great Palace of Cnossus this Labrys, or double axe, is to be seen on many a pillar or block, and it can scarcely be doubted that Labyrinthmeans the house [orplace] of the double axe,The word Labrys is saidto be Carian. It occursin the title Labraunda,given…
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