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Title: The evolution of the dragon
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Smith, G. Elliot (Grafton Elliot), Sir, 1871-1937
Subjects: Dragons Mythology Rain gods -- Egypt Mythology, Egyptian Aphrodite (Greek deity) Incense
Publisher: Manchester, The University press London, New York (etc.) Longmans, Green & company
Contributing Library: Kelly - University of Toronto
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fromwhose backs the trees of the Eastern Mountains are sprouting. This designaffords interesting corroboration of the suggestion that the Eastern Mountainsmay be confused with the cows head (see b and c) or with the cow itself.Newberry (^Ainia/s of A/r/iico/ogv ami Aiithropoloo^w Liverpool, Vol. I,p. 28) has called attention to the intimate association (in Protodynastic Egypt)of the Eastern Mountains, the Bull and the Double Axe—a certain token ofcultural contact with Crete. (/i) The famous sculpture above the Lion Gate at Mycenae. The pillarform of the Great Mother heraldically supported by her lioness-avatars, whichcorrespond to the cattle of the design (/) and the Eastern Mountains of (<?).The use of this design above the lintel of the gate brings it into homologywith the Winged Disk. The Pillar represents the Goddess, as the Disk repre-sents her Egyptian locum tenens, Horus ; her destructive representatives (thelionesses) correspond to the two uraei of the Winged Disk design.
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iMG. 26. THE BIRTH OF APHRODITE 189 of life and of wliich she kept the magic key. She was in fact thefeminine form of Janus, the doorkeeper who presided over all begin-nings, whether of birth, or of any kind of enterprise or new venture,or the commencement of the year (like Hathor). Janus was theguardian of the door of Olympus itself, the gate of rebirth into theimmortality of the gods. The ideas underlying these conceptions found expression in anendless variety of forms, material, intellectual, and moral, wherever theinfluence of civilization made itself felt. I shall refer only to one groupof these expressions that is directly relevant to the subject-matter ofthis book. I mean the custom of suspending or representing the life-giving symbol above the portal of temples and houses. Thus the plantpeculiar to Artemis herself, the mug\yort or Artemisia, was hung abovethe door,^ just as the winged disk was sculptured upon the lintel, orthe thunder-stone was placed above the door of the cow

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