Cook, Arthur Bernard, 1868-1952 · Cambridge, [Eng.] : University Press · leaf 250
yieus\ As the veritable earth-centre it furnished the starting-pointof later arithmology. In the mystic language of the Pythagoreans^ the second vowel E with the second planetary body, the sun ; id. ih. 5 writes E as eZ,if, if only, a word that might introduce a question or a prayer addressed to… … first odd Tpla ; id. id. i-j—21 concludes that E isfor el, thou art, as a metaphysical invocation ofthe deity. Years ago I ventured the suggestion (W. H. D. Rouse Grce/c Votive Offerings Z^im- Y\g. 121. Fig. 122. bridge 1902 p. 354 n. 11, Folk-Lore 1903 xiv. 287 f.) that the E was a sacred relic,…
Zeus (Greek deity) · Cults · Sun worship · Classical antiquities · Folk literature
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