Cook, Arthur Bernard, 1868-1952 · Cambridge [Eng.] The University Press · leaf 777
s that the duplicated blades of the double axe on the goldring symbolise two pairs of gods, on the one hand the celestialKronos and Zeus, on the other the solar Zeus and Apollon, eitherpair being conceived as Father and Son—an explanation whichmight have claimed support from the Ophites and their… … Fig. 581. Fig. 582. that it stands as an image of the conjunction of the divine pair—asolar and a lunar divinity. Personally I should contend that the double axe hafted in aleafy stem, as at Hagia Triada (pi. xxvii, by and Knossos (fig. 396)^,betokened the union of the Sky-father with the…
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