394 Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. 



Now when so unusual a combination as a bull and cranes occurs, in two 

 different places, it is impossible to suppose that there is nothing more than a 

 coincidence involved. There must be some radical connexion between tabvos 

 trigaraxos of the Paris altar, on which a bull is depicted with three 

 cranes on its back, and these dances of the Aegean islands. 1 But it is hardly 

 that the folk-lore of the Minotaur has travelled to Paris, or 

 that the folk-lore of Tarvos Trigaran - ravelled to the Aegean; here 



again we are to regard them bol - - a universal European 



cult. I _ l the altar, under a great tree. His essential 



connexion with the !• long ag been pointed out by D'Arbois 



de Jubainville : v a [tentative name given to the Bull of 



Cualnge in /. — Ball of Oak son of Oak. on whose flesh the 



aborigines of Ulidia omunal fea~t. Since the researches of 



Frazer and te import E the oak as a solar emblem lias been 



fullj nil of the "ak ifl therefore a solar bull, and the dance 



of the bull That the Minotaur is a solar being has been 



shown 1 ;. Delos therefore links on i<> 



the dan _ round New Grange. In a paper 



like the ••■lit with indicating the arguments thus in 



bare outline. 



- possible that thi mnbination of crane and solai symbols ifi to 



be seen once more in the well-known t • buckets and 



I Is from East rth as Denmark, belonging to the 



eudoftheBi ■_ f the Iron Age. Tl a circle, 



doubtless representin. nked by the fore-parts of two birdB with 



long . _ much resembles the Egyptian 



Hanked by two uraei, and may well 

 have been suggested in ti . trab. The birds 



are commonly identified with swans, but they can just as well ■•-.' The 



idea un _ . rne on the i'acks of 



the home- . ,1 journeys are of a very 



extended kind . . 5 overhead at a marvellous 



- it . . while the seeming order with which its ranks are marshalled 

 during b 1 attenti m ' 1 -uch habits as these 



might well be regarded as i _ _ ; the summer sun. 



vithoul comment, bj Mi Cook: 

 rro "*' - .1 1. p. 488 where a 



. ir combinatiui :t.-.| from Japan. 



n't Z(\u, 1 



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