Note 868 — VI THE STORY OF THE HITTITES
Reading edition
We have given our reasons (p. 231) for preferring to see in them the person of the king; but if certain emblems in the naiskos are really phallic, they may be read as indicating the sacrifice of these organs. On the other hand, like the bull, they may be merely emblematic of the king’s position as chief representative of the virile god. The evidence seems to us insufficient to solve this point.