Tsuntas, Chrestos: The Mycenaean age: a study of the monuments and culture of pre-homeric Greece (London, 1897)

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him. With him. we have a troop of goddesses closely
associated with the fruitful earth, as he is with the fructify-
ing sky. And, further, there are spirits of the wild-wood
and the mountain, of spring and stream, often presented
to us in guises so grotesque that we seem to be spectators
of a " monstrous rout." On these we have seen a whole
system of totemism built up.1

But it is the objective data with which we have to deal;
and these in chief we may sum up in the actual altars
which singularly take the same form at the grave-
side and in the palace-court; in the adoration
scenes of Mycenaean art, where altar and temple are unmis-
takable and deities to be recognized as such whether we go
on to name them or not; in countless idols; in one actual
temple (if we may consider the identification established at
Troy); and in a primitive cave-shrine with its votive deposit
in Crete.

1 A. B. Cook on " Animal Worship in the Mycenaean Age," Journal of Hel-
lenic Studies, xiv. 81-169.