Cook, Arthur Bernard, 1868-1952 · Cambridge [Eng.] The University Press · leaf 766
position^ The double axe, when a sacredweapon, would tend to be decorated ; and its deco-ration need not have a more recondite meaning. A neolithic celt of greenstone published byC. Blinkenberg^ has incised upon it an arborescentdesign (fig. 559) resembling the Donnerbesen^ or thunder-besom marked… … Fig- 559-Wissowa Real-Enc. n. 23, O. Waser Charon, Charun, Charos p. 15 f., id. in Pauly—iii. 2177 (Xd/3a>v...ist eine Art Kurzform zu x-P-^^^-^i I^t (wild)funkelndem Blick). On lightning as a flash from ihe eye of a deity see supra p. 501 ff.B. Schmidt Das Volksleben der Neiigriechen Leipzig…
Zeus (Greek deity) · Cults · Sun worship · Classical antiquities · Folk literature
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