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Zeus : a study in ancient religion (1914)

Cook, Arthur Bernard, 1868-1952 · Cambridge, [Eng.] : University Press · leaf 526

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to the earth oerspun with spiders weft; | The tree was dry anddesolate and of all leaves was reft. | .. .There in the midst of Paradise he looked at the treesroots, I Down to the bottom of the abyss its fibres deep it shoots. | And lo ! on the tree-top a babe, and swaddling bands he wears. [ That… … Fig. 266. byzantinischen Lilleratnr- Miinchen 1897 pp. 615, 617, 896] (Kalila and Dimna, or theFables of Bidpai trans. W. Knatchbull Oxford 1819 p. 80 f. cap. 4 I therefore comparedthe human race to a man, who, flying from a furious elephant, goes down into a well; hesuspends himself from two…

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

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