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Zeus : a study in ancient religion (1914)

Cook, Arthur Bernard, 1868-1952 · Cambridge, [Eng.] : University Press · leaf 235

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act we are to suppose {ib. iv. 308) that the Agyieus-emblem entered withthe wandering deity, and that it was specially consecrated by serving to mark certainstations along the Sacred Way from the north. The explanation is ingenious and, nodoubt, possible. But the view proposed in the text is more… … Omphalos zxidi Pillar 167 supported. It could therefore be attributed either to the earth-mother or to the sky-father, according as the worship of the goddessor the god prevailed. We shall hardly expect to find chapter and verse for all this inextant Greek literature. Crude notions are not always…

Zeus (Greek deity) · Cults · Sun worship · Classical antiquities · Folk literature

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