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
ymbol is not confined to Crete. It may be seen on Carian and other coins (PlatesI.sandV. 2).Besides the horns and the axe we find the pillar—evidently also a symbol of divine presence, as was probably the pillar set up by Jacob at Bethel. In the picture of the lyion Gate at Mycenae (Fig. 2) and in… … Earth-Goddess and I<ions THE AEGAEAN CIVILIZATION Another symbol, or sacred object, is a tree that remindsone somewhat of the ancient Babylonian and Biblical Tree of
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