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 111
TERING Sacred Tree ANCIENT GREECE of bird, beast, and human being. Perhaps they were used ascharms.^ But the most important fact of this nature that has beenbrought to Hght by excavation is that the most ancient Cretandeity was a goddess whom we meet in Greek mythologyunder various names—for… … 3°- The Lady of Whd Creatures closely related to this ancient Cretan goddess. We find her,pictured amidst all kinds of wild animals, as the goddess ofnature, the I^ady of Wild Creatures {worvia Otjpwv), as wasthe later Artemis. Frequently, as we have already seen,she is attended by lions, or by…
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