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Zeus : a study in ancient religion (1914)

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

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the 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 Othin London 1899 p. 73 ft.,P. D. Chantepie de la Saussaye The Religion of the Teutons Boston and London 1902j). 347 ft., E. Mogk in the Grundriss der germanischen Philologie2 Herausgegeben vonH. Paul Strassburg 1900 iii. 379…

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

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