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Zeus : a study in ancient religion (1914)

Cook, Arthur Bernard, 1868-1952 · Cambridge, [Eng.] : University Press · leaf 732

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u The double axe and the labarum 6ii home of the Ophites was Phrygia^; and there can be Httle doubtthat in this, the central portion of their otherworld chart, they soughtto combine old Phrygian beliefs with new Christian teaching^ Theappearance of a Idbrys in such a context is in the highest… … first book of the Kyranides. The author of that magico-medicalcompilation, who writes under the name of Hermes Trismegistos(the late Greek equivalent of the Egyptian Thoth)^ at some dateprior to c. 408 A.D.^, informs us in his prologue that he has puttogether the book of Kyranos kingof Persia^ and…

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

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