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Page 87
... brothers , sons of Zeus , the Dioskouroi . In the All - Holiest itself stood - so much even an uninitiate may guess - the third brother , who was worshipped both as a small and as a great Kabeiros , as a small Kadmilos and as the great ...
... brothers , sons of Zeus , the Dioskouroi . In the All - Holiest itself stood - so much even an uninitiate may guess - the third brother , who was worshipped both as a small and as a great Kabeiros , as a small Kadmilos and as the great ...
Page 171
... brother burst out laughing . All this hap pened in Apollon's " pastoral time " , which was spent in Thessaly . In this country his younger brother could feel as much at home as in Arcadia . The religious images erected to him were ...
... brother burst out laughing . All this hap pened in Apollon's " pastoral time " , which was spent in Thessaly . In this country his younger brother could feel as much at home as in Arcadia . The religious images erected to him were ...
Page 231
... brother appeared upon our shores and became the new master of our sea , our religion could find room for him . ( I am speaking , of course , of Posei don . ) Records exist of the worship of a trinity in which he is not included , a cult ...
... brother appeared upon our shores and became the new master of our sea , our religion could find room for him . ( I am speaking , of course , of Posei don . ) Records exist of the worship of a trinity in which he is not included , a cult ...
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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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According Adonis already amongst ancient Aphrodite Apollon appeared Ariadne Artemis Asia Minor beautiful begat birth Boeotia bore born brother called cave chariot child cows Cretan Crete Daktyloi dark daughter deities Delos Delphi Demeter Dionysos divine earth Erinyes Eros father female Gaia gave giant goddess gods golden Gorgons Greek Hades hand Harpies Heaven Hekate Helios Hephaistos Hera Herakles Hermes hero heroic saga Hesiod Hesperides Homer husband immortal island Kabeiroi King Korybantes Kouretes Kronos later Leto Maia maiden male mankind marriage means mentioned Moirai moon mortal mother Mount Muses mythology Nereids Nereus Night nymphs Okeanos Olympian Olympus original Orion Orpheus Ouranos Pallas Athene Persephone Phaethon phallic Phorkys Poseidon primordial Prometheus Rhea sacred Selene Semele serpent shape Sirens sister Skylla sons spring stories concerning surname tale Telchines tell Tethys Themis thou Titans told took Underworld vase vase-painting wife winged women word worshipped Zeus Zeus's