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The Sacred Tree, or The Tree in Religion and Myth, is by Mrs. J. H. Philpot. The preface says the volume lays no claim to scholarship, independent research, or originality of view, and that its aim has been to select and collate, from sources not always easily accessible to the general reader, certain facts and conclusions bearing upon a subject of acknowledged interest.
The list of illustrations includes a sacred tree with its supporters, surmounted by the winged disc, from an Assyrian cylinder, and a sacred tree of Dionysus, with a statue of the god and offerings. A chapter summary describes the lights on the Christmas-tree as a comparatively recent innovation, and the tree itself as an illustration of the blending of pagan and mediaeval ideas. The text says that in a bilingual text of much earlier date we read of the cedar-tree, the tree that shatters the power of the incubus, upon whose core is recorded the name of Ea.
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- Mrs. J. H. Philpot
- Reading time
- About 4 hours
- Pages
- 163
- Language
- English
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- Ancient History
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