Cook, Arthur Bernard, 1868-1952 · Cambridge, [Eng.] : University Press · leaf 909
remarks: TheTibetans think that the soul issues from the top of the head, and that the cutting off ofthe hair there facilitated its escape on death. So, too, the Kanikars, a mountain tribe of C III. 47 738 Significance of the birth of Athena The ancients, like ourselves, found the idea… … Fig- 535- Travancore, cut off the top-knot of the deceased (see Frazer, Buiial Customs, p. 83,note). But when Sir Arthur quotes (op. cil. p. 476) as a classical parallel Numas wordsto Iupiier in Ov. fast. 3. 341 Suminos, ait ille, capillos, he is relying on a worthlessvariant. The better…
Zeus (Greek deity) · Cults · Sun worship · Classical antiquities · Folk literature
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