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personage of history belonging to a hoary past beyond any historical date but he was a very popular god in Egypt, Western Asia and the Mediterranean Circa 3000 B. C.10 The horns of Consecration had intimate relationship with the cult of Mother Goddess in Minoan Greece. The horns were accepted even in the neolithic Greece and Ægean as a symbol of spiritual power and authority. Morgan discovered the importance of Horns in the right of election and deposition of a sachem of an Iroquois Gens. Installation of a sachem was symbolised as “putting in the horns' and his deposition as taking off the horns'. This practice was followed by Minoan Greece and Ægean Circa 2500 B. C. Thus we may safely conclude that the political system obtaining in the self-sufficient communities of Greece and the Ægean was of an elective republican type.
The neolithic Cretans believed in the cult of Reshef and Mother Goddess. When the Greekāryans established
their authority in Greece and the Ægean, Rşabha Cult
à great Greek, Dionysus, son of Zeus and Persephone, developed a religion which was savage and repulsive in original form. He was the god of primitive tribal Greek agriculturists following the ways of Gaņapati Indra in tribal drinking of wine. Dionysus was a great success in Greece. But under the new set of circumstances, that could not continue for long and another great Greek, Orpheus of Crete, influenced by the spiritual way of life gave the Greek religion an ascetic content. Orpheus be. lieved in soul and its transmigration. The Orphics believed that Man is partly of earth and partly of heaven, meaning thereby that Man is the union of Spirit and Matter. They believed that by a pure life, the heavenly part is increased and earthly part decreased. The soul in the next world achieved salvation. The Orphics abstained from animal
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