Abstract

FEW birds or animals have played a more important part in the ritual and symbolism of Europe and Asia than the swan and the goose. The study of the distribution of cults in which these birds were represented can, therefore, illuminate some of the dark pages of prehistory and give some indication of the religious ideas of early man and the extent to which cultural ideas were transmitted across the great land-mass of Eurasia.

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