PREFATORY NOTE

pp v-vi

Contents

pp vii-xii

ERRATA

pp xii-xii

THE MYCENAEAN TREE AND PILLAR CULT AND ITS MEDITERRANEAN RELATIONS

pp xiii-xiv

1 - Cretan Caves and Hypaethral Sanctuaries

pp 1-3

2 - Sacred Fig-Tree and Altar on a Pyxis from Knossos

pp 3-6

3 - The Dove Cult of Primitive Greece

pp 7-7

4 - The Association of Sacred Tree and Pillar

pp 7-8

5 - The ‘Labyrinth’ and the Pillar Shrines of the God of the Double Axe

pp 8-14

6 - The Bαίτυλος and Baetylic Tables of Offering

pp 14-20

7 - Zeus Kappôtes and the Meteoric Element in Baetylic Stones

pp 20-21

8 - Sepulchral Stelae as Baetylic Habitations of Departed Spirits

pp 21-21

9 - The Tomb of Zeus

pp 21-24

10 - Small Dimensions of the Mycenean Shrines

pp 24-25

11 - Aniconic Cult Images supplemented by Pictorial Representations of Divinities: Transitions to Anthropomorphism

pp 25-28

12 - Illustrative Survivals of Tree and Pillar Cult in Classical Greece and Italy

pp 28-30

13 - The Ficus Ruminalis

pp 30-32

14 - Illustrative Value of Semitic Religious Sources

pp 32-37

15 - The Horns of Consecration

pp 37-40

16 - Trinities and other Groups of Sacred Trees and Pillars

pp 40-45

17 - “The Pillar of the House”

pp 45-48

18 - Egyptian Influences and the Rayed Pillars of Mycenaean Cyprus

pp 48-54

19 - The Egyptian Element in the Animal Supporters of Mycenaean Trees and Columns

pp 54-55

20 - Sacred Trees and Foliated Pillars with Heraldically Posed Animals

pp 55-58

21 - Architectural Columns with Animal Supporters: the Lions' Gate Type

pp 58-65

22 - Anthropomorphic Figures of Divinities substituted for the Baetylic Column in the Lions' Gate Scheme

pp 65-70

23 - Mycenaean Daemons in Similar Heraldic Schemes

pp 70-71

24 - A Mycenaean “Bethshemesh”

pp 71-77

25 - Cult Scenes relating to a Warrior God and his Consort

pp 77-83