Essays and studies presented to William Ridgeway on his sixtieth birthday, 6 August, 1913 (1913)
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c cave-moundhouse. Is this merely a vividly realised incident in adivine biography or is it an echo or travesty of someactual ritual ? If we examine the series of Anodosvases it is, I think, impossible to avoid the conclusionthat some ritual act is represented ^ Scholars are indeedpractically… … Kyllene is nothing but a local Earth-Maiden ; she risesfrom the Earth to announce the Epiphany of the wonder-child Hermes, whose swift, supernatural growth frominfancy to maturity she details at length. In a word, thescene presented in the Ichneutae is a form of the Springdromenon^ the resurrection…
