The Mycenaean Tree and Pillar Cult and its Mediterranean Relations With Illustrations from Recent Cretan Finds
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PREFATORY NOTE
- Contents
- ERRATA
- THE MYCENAEAN TREE AND PILLAR CULT AND ITS MEDITERRANEAN RELATIONS
- 1 Cretan Caves and Hypaethral Sanctuaries
- 2 Sacred Fig-Tree and Altar on a Pyxis from Knossos
- 3 The Dove Cult of Primitive Greece
- 4 The Association of Sacred Tree and Pillar
- 5 The ‘Labyrinth’ and the Pillar Shrines of the God of the Double Axe
- 6 The Bαίτυλος and Baetylic Tables of Offering
- 7 Zeus Kappôtes and the Meteoric Element in Baetylic Stones
- 8 Sepulchral Stelae as Baetylic Habitations of Departed Spirits
- 9 The Tomb of Zeus
- 10 Small Dimensions of the Mycenean Shrines
- 11 Aniconic Cult Images supplemented by Pictorial Representations of Divinities: Transitions to Anthropomorphism
- 12 Illustrative Survivals of Tree and Pillar Cult in Classical Greece and Italy
- 13 The Ficus Ruminalis
- 14 Illustrative Value of Semitic Religious Sources
- 15 The Horns of Consecration
- 16 Trinities and other Groups of Sacred Trees and Pillars
- 17 “The Pillar of the House”
- 18 Egyptian Influences and the Rayed Pillars of Mycenaean Cyprus
- 19 The Egyptian Element in the Animal Supporters of Mycenaean Trees and Columns
- 20 Sacred Trees and Foliated Pillars with Heraldically Posed Animals
- 21 Architectural Columns with Animal Supporters: the Lions' Gate Type
- 22 Anthropomorphic Figures of Divinities substituted for the Baetylic Column in the Lions' Gate Scheme
- 23 Mycenaean Daemons in Similar Heraldic Schemes
- 24 A Mycenaean “Bethshemesh”
- 25 Cult Scenes relating to a Warrior God and his Consort
- 26 Sacred Gateways or Portal Shrines, mostly associated with Sacred Trees
- 27 The Dolmen Shrines of Primitive Cult and the Dove Shrines of Mycenae
- 28 Fresco representing Small Baetylic Temple, from the Palace at Knossos
- 29 Parallels to the Baetylic Shrines of the Mycenaeans supplied by the Megalithic Sanctuaries of the Maltese Islands
- 30 An Oriental Pillar Shrine in Macedonia and the Associated Worship
- COLOURED PLATE
5 - The ‘Labyrinth’ and the Pillar Shrines of the God of the Double Axe
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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PREFATORY NOTE
- Contents
- ERRATA
- THE MYCENAEAN TREE AND PILLAR CULT AND ITS MEDITERRANEAN RELATIONS
- 1 Cretan Caves and Hypaethral Sanctuaries
- 2 Sacred Fig-Tree and Altar on a Pyxis from Knossos
- 3 The Dove Cult of Primitive Greece
- 4 The Association of Sacred Tree and Pillar
- 5 The ‘Labyrinth’ and the Pillar Shrines of the God of the Double Axe
- 6 The Bαίτυλος and Baetylic Tables of Offering
- 7 Zeus Kappôtes and the Meteoric Element in Baetylic Stones
- 8 Sepulchral Stelae as Baetylic Habitations of Departed Spirits
- 9 The Tomb of Zeus
- 10 Small Dimensions of the Mycenean Shrines
- 11 Aniconic Cult Images supplemented by Pictorial Representations of Divinities: Transitions to Anthropomorphism
- 12 Illustrative Survivals of Tree and Pillar Cult in Classical Greece and Italy
- 13 The Ficus Ruminalis
- 14 Illustrative Value of Semitic Religious Sources
- 15 The Horns of Consecration
- 16 Trinities and other Groups of Sacred Trees and Pillars
- 17 “The Pillar of the House”
- 18 Egyptian Influences and the Rayed Pillars of Mycenaean Cyprus
- 19 The Egyptian Element in the Animal Supporters of Mycenaean Trees and Columns
- 20 Sacred Trees and Foliated Pillars with Heraldically Posed Animals
- 21 Architectural Columns with Animal Supporters: the Lions' Gate Type
- 22 Anthropomorphic Figures of Divinities substituted for the Baetylic Column in the Lions' Gate Scheme
- 23 Mycenaean Daemons in Similar Heraldic Schemes
- 24 A Mycenaean “Bethshemesh”
- 25 Cult Scenes relating to a Warrior God and his Consort
- 26 Sacred Gateways or Portal Shrines, mostly associated with Sacred Trees
- 27 The Dolmen Shrines of Primitive Cult and the Dove Shrines of Mycenae
- 28 Fresco representing Small Baetylic Temple, from the Palace at Knossos
- 29 Parallels to the Baetylic Shrines of the Mycenaeans supplied by the Megalithic Sanctuaries of the Maltese Islands
- 30 An Oriental Pillar Shrine in Macedonia and the Associated Worship
- COLOURED PLATE
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- The Mycenaean Tree and Pillar Cult and its Mediterranean RelationsWith Illustrations from Recent Cretan Finds, pp. 8 - 14Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2013First published in: 1901