. The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos . Th& Waz:Symbol ofButo. Its Talis- manic Value. Fig. 527. Evolution of Wing-ed Goblin Type: a, DoubleAxe Symbol, Sealing, Knossos(M. M. II); b, Melian adaptation ; c, d, Goblin Types on Melian Vases (M. M. II). designs. Some geometrical types of Egyptian association occur, indeed inan unadulterated form, as in the case of the examples given in Fig. 523above. Once more we find, among the elementsfrom this source, a con-spicuous place occupied by t
. The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos . Th& Waz:Symbol ofButo. Its Talis- manic Value. Fig. 527. Evolution of Wing-ed Goblin Type: a, DoubleAxe Symbol, Sealing, Knossos(M. M. II); b, Melian adaptation ; c, d, Goblin Types on Melian Vases (M. M. II). designs. Some geometrical types of Egyptian association occur, indeed inan unadulterated form, as in the case of the examples given in Fig. 523above. Once more we find, among the elementsfrom this source, a con-spicuous place occupied by the waz (wz) or papyrus stem symbol, which,as we have seen, had already made its appearance on Cretan seals of theFirst Middle Minoan Period.^ The was itself, signifying green orflourishing,^ was the special symbol of the Goddess Wazet (Buto), andis placed on scarabs, as already noted in connexion with the Snake Goddess,^with a definite amuletic intention. On the Cretan seals, where it is of veryearly appearance,^ it may originally have been borrowed with some vaguesense of its talismanic value. That the symbol of the Delta Goddessshould fin
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