Scull, Sarah Amelia · Philadelphia : Porter & Coates · leaf 75
a sternercharacter. When the worshippers of Zeus dwelt uponhis purity and justice, there resulted a cultus whosecentral deity was conceived as demanding sacrifices ofhuman blood, but who could accept instead the bloodof animals; hence the Zeus Lycjeus of Arcadia. HELLENIC ZEUS. As different… … Zeus, or Jupiter. tendency of the human mind to conceive of a supremedeity, so varying were their component elements that acomparison of their settled stages shows uniformity onlyin their origin and name. 7 74 GREEK MYTHOLOGY. It is probable that the early idea of Belus, of Baal,and of Zeus Amun…
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