Bird Gods in Ancient Europe 



Heraion, not far from Mykenal, and notes that 

 she carries in one hand a sceptre on which 

 perches a cuckoo, in memory of the stratagem 

 of Zeus. Such is the power of religion ! Acts 

 reprobated by the Greeks were pubHcly insisted 

 upon, dwelt upon in their monuments, merely 

 because the remote, barbarous past had mar- 

 velled at the strange acts of birds and made 

 them their gods. 



