Cook, Arthur Bernard, 1868-1952 · Cambridge, [Eng.] : University Press · leaf 323
niscent of a Minoan mother-goddess. Indeed, when Alexanderthe Great struck his magnificent gold coins (figs. 142, 143)1 showingthe head of Athena with a coiled snake on its helmet, we may detecta last unconscious echo of the Cretan goddess with a snake twinedabout her head-dress. What the name… … Fig. 144. Fig. 145. Hephaistos too appears to have been Pelasgian or Tyrsenian.The two chief centres of his worship on Greek soil were admittedlyLemnos and Athens, both at one time in Pelasgian occupation. aiyiSa A.9rjvri<n (pipovaa dyeipct [airb Trjs &Kpcnr6\ews] ap^ap-iv-q irpbs to. icpd…
Zeus (Greek deity) · Cults · Sun worship · Classical antiquities · Folk literature
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