Cook, Arthur B.: Zeus: a study in ancient religion (Band 2,1): Zeus god of the dark sky (thunder and lightning): Text and notes (Cambridge, 1925)

and the Soul-Ladder 137

Ladder of the Soul's Salvation and of the Road to Heaven' is like-

Fig. 81.

wise a traditional theme among the ecclesiastical painters of the

Surrey Archceological Collections 1871 v. 275—306 with col. pi., Eliza B. Miller in The
Victoria History of the County of Surrey London 1912 iv. 192 f. with col. frontisp. by
P. M. Johnston. Good photographs are obtainable in the form of picture-postcards
(=my pi. viii). The colours used in the original are ' red and yellow ochre, a little native
cinnabar and white' (Waller). The painting is divided into two registers by a horizontal
band or nebuly. The lower register represents the torments of the lost ; the upper, the