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Zeus : a study in ancient religion (1914)

Cook, Arthur Bernard, 1868-1952 · Cambridge, [Eng.] : University Press · leaf 627

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57 fig. 6 (inscription corrected, after R. M. Dawkins). My illustration is from an im-pression in plaster kindly furnished by Mr B. Staes. 512 Lightning as a weapon (fig- 390^- Lastly, the paraphernalia of a diviner, discovered in thelower town at Pergamon and thence transferred to Berlin,… … Fig. 390. R. Wiinsch that these stones are simply slices of one or more neo-lithic celts, cut up to serve as amulets. Special virtue was doubtlessattributed to any section of a thunderbolt. It would seem, then, that the beliefs attaching to neolithic celtsamong the modern Greeks can be traced back…

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

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