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... Crete and hid her child in the cave of Mount Aigaion . According to another story , 222 Zeus was born in Arcadia , on Mount Lykaion , on whose summit , in the sacred region of Zeus Lykaios- “ wolfish Zeus " -no creature cast a shadow ...
... Crete and hid her child in the cave of Mount Aigaion . According to another story , 222 Zeus was born in Arcadia , on Mount Lykaion , on whose summit , in the sacred region of Zeus Lykaios- “ wolfish Zeus " -no creature cast a shadow ...
Page 109
... Crete . These are Cretan tales , but they were received into our mythology , and I shall therefore tell them , at least briefly . The narrators did not agree306 as to whether Europa was the daughter or the sister of King Phoinix , from ...
... Crete . These are Cretan tales , but they were received into our mythology , and I shall therefore tell them , at least briefly . The narrators did not agree306 as to whether Europa was the daughter or the sister of King Phoinix , from ...
Page 110
... Crete Zeus also had the same name , as Zeus Tallaios . In the story of Europa , " Zeus " obviously means the Cretan sun - god . This god also appeared in the shape of a bull -or perhaps , more exactly , it was the Cretan sky - god in ...
... Crete Zeus also had the same name , as Zeus Tallaios . In the story of Europa , " Zeus " obviously means the Cretan sun - god . This god also appeared in the shape of a bull -or perhaps , more exactly , it was the Cretan sky - god in ...
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THE BEGINNING OF THINGS | 15 |
THE MOIRAI HEKATE AND OTHER PRE OLYMPIAN | 31 |
THE GREAT GODDESS OF LOVE | 66 |
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