Cook, Arthur Bernard, 1868-1952 · Cambridge [Eng.] The University Press · leaf 650
7)1. A certain analogy with the foregoing examples of Minoanreligious art is afforded by an amulet, whichforms the central pendant of an Etruscangold necklace (fig. 398)-. It consists of aneolithic arrow-head of flint imbedded in thestem of a golden lily^ on which rests a diskenclosing a decorative… … goddess. Fig. 398. (7) The double axe in relation to columns or pillars. Thirdly, the double axe had a religious significance for theMinoan age, when it was stuck into the columns of a sacred build-ing or cave. Fragments of painted plaster from the palace at Knossosshow portions of a sanctuary with…
Zeus (Greek deity) · Cults · Sun worship · Classical antiquities · Folk literature
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