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Zeus : a study in ancient religion (1914)

Cook, Arthur Bernard, 1868-1952 · Cambridge, [Eng.] : University Press · leaf 1006

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as a disk and bar, which may be symbolic ofthe suns orbit, or eternity. Mr Sidney Smith would recognise rather a measuring rod with a coil of cord. Hecompares part of the stele of Ur-Nammu, on which the coil is rendered as having separatestrands and a dependent loop (C. L. Woolley in The… … A Sumerian relief in baked clay :Lilith (?), a possible ancestress of the Owl-Athena. See page 832 ff. and page 1193 The owl of Athena 833 are in relief, the lines on the palms incised1; the eyes were inlaid,the whole body painted red, except perhaps for a darkened pubes;the wing-feathers are…

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

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