Evans, Arthur J.: The Palace of Minos: a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustred by the discoveries at Knossos (Band 2,1): Fresh lights on origins and external relations (London, 1928)

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him in the nostril, and he set up a mighty bellowing, so that he is known
unto this day as ' the bellower '.

To one who has experienced the tossing and listened to the muffled
roaring from below, this popular explanation of earthquakes seems natural
enough, and it may well have affected the primitive religion of Minoan
Crete.

Fig. 184. Sunken Lustral Basin of the North-West Palace Area.