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Definition of Baetyl

1. a magical stone [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Baetyl

Literary usage of Baetyl

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Manual of Mythology: In Relation to Greek Art by Maxime Collignon (1890)
"The baetyl of eastern nations explains the 0/ Xt#o? of the Greeks. ... The stone must have been a baetyl, or something of the kind, dedicated by an ..."

2. Rough Stone Monuments and Their Builders by Thomas Eric Peet (1912)
"... covered with pit-markings. llu. pillai eau hardly be anything but a baetyl, ... was found a baetyl 51 inches in height, now in tin- museum at Valletta. ..."

3. Publications by Folklore Society (Great Britain) (1905)
"These passages make it probable that the stone, which may have been a baetyl ‘Petr. sat. 44. ‘Tert. a/al. 40. The sources and literature are cited eg by ..."

4. A History of Greece to the Death of Alexander the Great by John Bagnell Bury (1913)
"This points to pillar—or, as it is called, '' baetyl " —worship. 3 The identification of the hall of the women at Tiryns is not indeed absolutely certain, ..."

5. The Mythology of All Races by John Arnott MacCulloch, Louis Herbert Gray, George Foot Moore, Alice Werner (1916)
"133), whose talisman is a black stone — suggestive enough of the black baetyl brought to Rome, 205 B. c., as an image of Rhea-Cybele, or of the hoary ..."

6. Folklore by Folklore Society (Great Britain), Joseph Jacobs, Alfred Trübner Nutt, Arthur Robinson Wright, William Crooke (1904)
"Zeus had here erected the stone that Cronus had vomited forth :2S1 it was oiled daily and dressed in wool at every festival,232 being a veritable baetyl ..."

7. Essays and Addresses by Richard Claverhouse Jebb (1907)
"By and by Apollo became its principal divinity; but the memory of his predecessor was still preserved, and the granite baetyl remained in the grotto as the ..."

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