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 115
some tauriform 55 ANCIENT GREECEOriental deity, such as Moloch, or from the bull-Dionysus ofThrace, of whose orgies I have already spoken, it is impossibleto feel certain. Of the ritual of the Bull-god in Crete, saysMiss Harrison, we know that it consisted in part of thetearing and eating of a… … 32. The return of the Earth-Maiden (here Pandora) have himself been sacrificed in the Dictaean cave at the end ofhis nine years of sovereignty. The later legend makes Zeusthe original Phoenician-Cretan Bull-god, and Minos his son,but it seems more likely that the monstrous deity existed inCrete…
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