. The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos . , suggesting the almost certain restoration seen in Fig. 362,a and b. The spots taken over, perhaps through analogy with the snakes, This observation was first made by the artist, Mr. Halvor Bagge, to whom the restoreddrawing in Fig. 362 is due. Ill: THE SNAKE GODDESS AND RELICS 505 need hardly stand in the way of the identification of the animal with thelioness, sacred, as we know from other pieces of evidence, to the GreatMinoan Goddess,
. The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos . , suggesting the almost certain restoration seen in Fig. 362,a and b. The spots taken over, perhaps through analogy with the snakes, This observation was first made by the artist, Mr. Halvor Bagge, to whom the restoreddrawing in Fig. 362 is due. Ill: THE SNAKE GODDESS AND RELICS 505 need hardly stand in the way of the identification of the animal with thelioness, sacred, as we know from other pieces of evidence, to the GreatMinoan Goddess, later identified with Rhea.^ This connexion is further borne out by two seal impressions belonging Lionsto the large hoard from the Western Repository. On one of these (Fig. tantsof363 a) a female figure, presumably the Goddess herself, and wearing Goddessa peaked tiara, is seen holding in one hand what seems to be the shaftof a spear and laying the other on the hind-quarters of a lion who looks upat her. On another sealing (3) a warrior wearing a peaked cap and holdinga spear and shield of a known Minoan class marches beside a lioness or
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