Cook, Arthur Bernard, 1868-1952 · Cambridge [Eng.] The University Press · leaf 333
couch of Castor 1. We gather, then,that at the lectisteitiia lupiter and the gods in general were originally repre-sented by twisted bundles of herbs. These bundles seem to have been paddedand clothed as puppets ; for in 179 B.C., shaken by an earthquake, the wool andwrappings attached to lupiter…
Zeus (Greek deity) · Cults · Sun worship · Classical antiquities · Folk literature
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