Animal Worship in the Mycenaean Age

Abstract

Among the many discoveries made by the Greek Archaeological Society at Mycenae in 1886 there is one which, for the student of primitive religion, possesses a quite exceptional interest—I refer to the strange fresco here reproduced (Fig. 1). It was recovered at the excavation of a chamber belonging to the oldest period. The fresco itself was found on a wall somewhat to the south of this chamber, but evidently connected with the same group of buildings. M. Tsountas, the able director of the operations, describes it as It may be well to quote further his own account of the find. bearing on their shoulders a pole, which they grasp with their right hands—the left in each case not being shown.