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Worship of the Spear

CHERONIA (Ancient city) VIOTIA
Of the gods, the people of Chaeroneia honor most the scepter which Homer says4 Hephaestus made for Zeus, Hermes received from Zeus and gave to Pelops, Pelops left to Atreus, Atreus to Thyestes, and Agamemnon had from Thyestes. This scepter, then, they worship, calling it Spear

Perseus: Pausanias, Description of Greece, Boeotia
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