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Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand and One Nights — Volume 6 (of 6)

Note 203 — THE LINGUIST-DAME, THE DUENNA AND THE KING’S SON.

Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2

For Elias, Elijah, or Khizr, a marvellous legendary figure, see vols. iv. 175; v. 384. The worship of Helios (Apollo) is not extinct in mod. Greece where it survives under the name of Elias. So Dionysus has become St. Dionysius; Bacchus the Drunken, St. George; and Artemis St. Artemides the healer of childhood.

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