Zeus : a study in ancient religion . Fig. 860. Fig. 861. discoveries may be resumed as follows. Some four miles due east of Amaseia rises arounded hill (1350^) known as Beuyuk Evlia, The Great Saint (map xiii), and reputedto be the burial-place of a santon or Turkish saint. Every year in May the peasants repairto this otherwise deserted height, slaughter fowls and sheep, and feast merrily in honourof the Profit Iliyd. A clump of large pines crowns the hill-top, venerable trees which areheld in such respect that no one will touch them with an axe. (By way of an ancientparallel F. Cumont cites M
Zeus : a study in ancient religion . Fig. 860. Fig. 861. discoveries may be resumed as follows. Some four miles due east of Amaseia rises arounded hill (1350^) known as Beuyuk Evlia, The Great Saint (map xiii), and reputedto be the burial-place of a santon or Turkish saint. Every year in May the peasants repairto this otherwise deserted height, slaughter fowls and sheep, and feast merrily in honourof the Profit Iliyd. A clump of large pines crowns the hill-top, venerable trees which areheld in such respect that no one will touch them with an axe. (By way of an ancientparallel F. Cumont cites M. Tsakuroglou in the ^ovaelov /cai BL^XiodrjKrj ttjs EvayyeXiKTJsSxoX^s ^1/ H/xijpvr) 1878—1880 p. 164 no. rX/3 = S. Reinach C/ironiques d^Orient Paris 1891p. 157 an inscription from Divlit near Koloe {Koula) in Lydia ^rous tk ,^r\\yo<i\ Ilepemoui /3,Kvp. I Srparoiei/cos j8, iTreidi] Kara \ dyuoiav eK rov aX(roi;[s] ^Koxpa \ 84v5pa OeQu Ai6s Ha^ai^iovKal I Apr^/AiSos AvaeiTts Ko\a(T\deis, ei^^d/xcios €vxOPi-<TTr}\pLov avic
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