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Picus-Who-is-also-Zeus
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 October 2009
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page 111 note 3 Borneo supplies examples of definite bird cults, but the actual worship of bird divinities is difficult to parallel elsewhere.
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page 112 note 2 An exception is Pausanias of Damascus, Frag. 4. (Hist. Graec. Min. I. ed. Dindorf, p. 179) who tells us that Seleucus sacrificed . Here the identification with Zeus is, of course, implied, and it is used to form a link between Oriental and European history (see Note 5 below).
page 112 note 3 Trieber, , ‘Die Idee der vier Weltreiche,’ Hermes, XXVII. (1892), pp. 321–344Google Scholar. This idea was taken over by the medieval historians. Cf. at the end of the thirteenth century Higden, Polychronicon (Rolls Series, London, 1865), II., p. 256Google Scholar; at the end of the twelfth century the second recension of the De Mirabilibus Urbis Romae (Nichols, , The Marvels of Rome, London, 1889, pp. 2 and 3Google Scholar) contains muddled reminiscences of the system.
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