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- fork or shovel) on a pile of harvested grain. The winnowing-fan (λίκνον [líknon], also meaning a "cradle") featured in the rites accorded Dionysus and in...
- Bullroarer Salpinx, long, straight trumpet Pan flute Tympanon, a frame drum Liknon, sacred basket with fig Musk, civet, frankincense, storax, ivy, grapes,...
- another priestess (or senior initiate) and her ****istants preparing the liknon basket; at her feet are the legs of the bench she is sitting on that could...
- Vermaseren, p. 149. Julius Pollux 6.76 Allaire Brumfield, Cakes in the Liknon: Votives from the Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore on Acrocorinth, Hesperia:...
- Porphyry, On Abstinence from Animal Food 2.7 Allaire Brumfield, Cakes in the Liknon: Votives from the Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore on Acrocorinth, Hesperia:...
- benefit from mild wind, which can carry away lighter particles. The λικνον (liknon) appears in the Iliad (5.4999). These have been used in India from centuries...
- Pinax from Locri depicting Proserpina opening the liknon used in the mystery rites...
- Kore at the time of first harvest. See Allaire Brumfield, “Cakes in the liknon: Votives from the Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore on Acrocorinth,” Hesperia...
- Aromanian leagãnu "to swing", Megleno-Romanian legăn), from Byzantine Gr**** liknon "cradle"; likewise Albanian lëkund "to swing" mal lakeside s****, riverbank;...
- depicting the wedding of Cupid and Psyche shows an attendant elevating a liknon (basket) used in Dionysiac initiation. C. Moreschini saw the Metamorphoses...