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Zeus : a study in ancient religion - Warburg Institute

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140<br />

The Sky-Pillar <strong>in</strong> Sard<strong>in</strong>ia<br />

abid<strong>in</strong>g helpfulness is attested by the popularity of Longfellow's<br />

poem The Ladder of Sa<strong>in</strong>t August<strong>in</strong>e^. J. M. Neale had the experi-<br />

Fig. 82.<br />

ence of centuries at his back, when with regard to life's trials,<br />

sorrows, and temptations he put the wistful question :<br />

What are they but the ladder<br />

Set up to heaven on earth ?<br />

(k) The Sky-Pillar <strong>in</strong> Sard<strong>in</strong>ia.<br />

The <strong>in</strong>vocation prefixed to the Orphic Hymns is addressed to a<br />

great variety of gods and goddesses <strong>in</strong>clud<strong>in</strong>g<br />

1 H. W. Longfellow ('Cambridge Edition') London 1895 p. 186 f. with note on<br />

p. 668: 'The words of St. August<strong>in</strong>e are, "De vitiis nostris scalam nobis facimus, si<br />

vitia ipsa calcamus."— Sermon <strong>in</strong>. De Ascetisione.'

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