Cook, Arthur Bernard, 1868-1952 · Cambridge, [Eng.] : University Press · leaf 799
p. 100 f.pi. 54, 7 (length 0-12™). 678 The axe and the sacred oak at Dodona axes of Crete. A fine double axe of iron, also from Dodona(fig. 6ig)\ may give us some idea of Helios tool. Philostratos statement with regard to the axe left, apparentlyin the sacred tree, by the forefather of the… … Fig. 619. priestly wood-cutter leaving his axe in the tree, but also we haveunmistakeable evidence of the axe being conceived as male and thetree as female. If I am right in my interpretation of the tale (andthere is small room for error), it follows that here in an out-of-the-way corner of Europe…
Zeus (Greek deity) · Cults · Sun worship · Classical antiquities · Folk literature
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