ILLUSTRATIONS
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Sacred tree with its supporters, from St. Mark’s, Venice Frontispiece
1, Rudimentary and conventionalised forms of the sacred tree 5
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4. Sacred tree with its supporters, surmounted by the winged disc, from an Assyrian cylinder 6
5. Sacred tree, from the Temple of Athena at Pryene 6
6. The same, from a sculptured slab in the Treasury of St. Mark’s, Venice 7
7. A Ba or soul receiving the lustral water from a tree-goddess 10
8. Sacred tree with worshippers, from eastern gateway at Sânchi 15
9. Sacred tree, from a Mexican manuscript 17
10. The goddess Nu̔ît in her sacred sycamore bestowing the bread and water of the next world 26
11. Sacred tree of Dionysus, with a statue of the god and offerings 27
12. Sacred pine of Silvanus, with a bust of the god, and votive gifts 28
13. Fruit-tree dressed as Dionysus 31
14, Forms of the Tât or Didû, the emblem of Osiris 34
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16. Apollo on his sacred tripod, a laurel branch in his hand 36
17. Coin of Athens, of the age of Pericles or earlier, showing olive spray 38
18. Coin of Athens, third century B.C. 38
19. The Bodhi-tree of Kanaka Muni 41
20. Wild elephants paying their devotions to the sacred banian of Kâsyapa Buddha 42
21. Sacred sycamore, with offerings 44
22. Sacred tree of Artemis, hung with weapons of the chase 45
23. Sacred laurel of Apollo at Delphi, adorned with fillets and votive tablets; beneath it the god appearing to protect Orestes 50
24. Imperial coin of Myra in Lycia, showing tree-goddess 87
25. Sacred tree and worshipper, from a Chaldaean cylinder 88
26. Sacred tree as symbol of fertility, from an Assyrian bas-relief 89
27. Yggdrasil, the Scandinavian world-tree 115
28. From a Babylonian seal 130
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