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Zeus : a study in ancient religion (1914)

Cook, Arthur Bernard, 1868-1952 · Cambridge [Eng.] The University Press · leaf 525

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he design is an old, leafless tree, with wide-stretched boughs, springingfrom a mound, on which couches *an animal, apparently intended for a dog. Here SirArthur sees a parallel to the Scandinavian world-tree, the ash of Odhins steed, Yggdrasil,whose roots were gnawed by the serpent NiShoggr (K.… … Fig. 265. Mythologie Berlin 1891 p. 81 ft., H. M. Chadwick The Cult oj Othiti London 1899 p. 73 fi^.,P. D. Chantepie de la Saussaye The Religion of the Teutons Boston and London 1902p. 347 ft., E. Mogk in the Grundriss der germanischen Philologie^ Herausgegeben vonH. Paul Strassburg 1900 iii. 379…

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

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