Dionysos and Immortality by Benjamin Ide Wheeler

Author:Benjamin Ide Wheeler [Wheeler, Benjamin Ide]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Non-Fiction, Philosophy, Spirituality
Goodreads: 43438331
Publisher: Libre Dionysia
Published: 2018-12-31T05:00:00+00:00

Note 3

When we venture to refer to a pre-Homeric religion, it must be understood that we are here beyond the range of documentary evidence. Inferences from the known facts of later Greek religion, from the facts of other Indo-European religions, and from the scanty and as yet imperfectly interpreted remains of Mycenaean civilization constitute our only guidance. The altar-pit in the courtyard at Tiryns, and the evidence that the Mycenaean tombs were virtually houses of the dead, to which the altar-pits above them brought the blood-offering and food for the departed, join with the prior facts of Indo-European religion and the later facts of historic Greek religion to confirm a tolerably certain line of historical development.

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