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Dikti or
Dicte (Gr****: Δίκτη) (also
Lasithiotika Ori; Gr****: Λασιθιώτικα Όρη "Lasithian Mountains"; anciently,
Aigaion oros (Ancient Gr****: Αἰγαῖον ὄρος)...
- to be
located in Crete,
where Minoans may have
called her a
version of "
Dikte".
Ancient authors proposed several possible derivations of the name Amaltheia...
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Cretan coinage,
either as
herself or as Diktynna, the
goddess of
Mount Dikte, Zeus' birthplace. As Diktynna, she was
depicted as a
winged goddess with...
- "of the
earth or underworld")
Diktaios (Δικταιος): Zeus as lord of the
Dikte mountain range,
worshipped from
Mycenaean times on
Crete Dodonian/ Dodonaios...
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could find
Apate (Deceit) the
crafty one. But when high
above Korybantian Dikte (Corybantian Dicte) she
beheld the
child bed
water of
neighbouring Amnisos...
- The
Living Planet: A
Portrait of the
Earth is a BBC
nature do****entary
series written and
presented by
David Attenborough,
first transmitted in the UK...
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which appears in
Linear A on
libation tablets and in
connection with
Mount Dikte and
Mount Ida, both of
which are ****ociated with caverns.
Caverns near Gortyna...
- birth,
later tradition located the cave on
Mount Ida, or
sometimes Mount Dikte, see Hard, pp. 74–75; West 1966, pp. 297–298 on line 477, p. 300 on line...
- birth,
later tradition located the cave on
Mount Ida, or
sometimes Mount Dikte, see Hard, pp. 74–75; West 1966, pp. 297–298 on line 477, p. 300 on line...
- Zeus. The mountains, of
which the cave are part, are
known in
Crete as
Dikte. The cave was
first excavated in 1886 by
Joseph Hatzidakis,
President of...
