Cook, Arthur Bernard, 1868-1952 · Cambridge [Eng.] The University Press · leaf 747
Fig. 523- Fig- .^24. priestesses bearing the double axe and the sacred robe of theirgoddess. Or should we rather say the sacred robe of their goddessand the double axe of their god . Two stone moulds found near Palaikastro in 1899 exhibit awhole series of designs relating to the Cretan axe-cult^… … Fiy;- 525- Sir A. J. Evans in the Ann. Brit. Sch. Ath. 1901—1901 viii. loi f. fig. 59 ( = niyfig. 523, scale f) speaks of the figure on this intaglio, found near the Court of the OilSpout in the Cnossian palace, as apparently a female divinity. But why ? •^ D. G. Hogarth in iht Journ. Hell. Sttid.…
Zeus (Greek deity) · Cults · Sun worship · Classical antiquities · Folk literature
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