Walter Burkert discerned three components in the prehistory of Apollo worship, which he termed " a Dorian-northwest Greek component, a Cretan-Minoan component, and a Syro-Hittite component.

* Walter Burkert, 1985.

* Burkert, Walter, 1985.

Walter Burkert notes that " Ares is apparently an ancient abstract noun meaning throng of battle, war.

* Walter Burkert, 1985.

* Burkert, Walter.

* Burkert, Walter, Greek Religion 1985.

* Burkert, Walter, 1977 ( tr.

A scholar of Greek mythology Walter Burkert writes in Greek Religion, " Nevertheless, there are memories of an earlier aniconic representation, as a pillar in Argos and as a plank in Samos.

* Burkert, Walter, Greek Religion 1985.

* Burkert, Walter, The Orientalizing Revolution: Near Eastern Influence on Greek Culture in the Early Archaic Age, 1998

* Burkert, Walter, 1985.

Walter Burkert notes that in Phaistos she appears in connection with an initiation cult.

Nymphs are personifications of the creative and fostering activities of nature, most often identified with the life-giving outflow of springs: as Walter Burkert ( Burkert 1985: III. 3. 3 ) remarks, " The idea that rivers are gods and springs divine nymphs is deeply rooted not only in poetry but in belief and ritual ; the worship of these deities is limited only by the fact that they are inseparably identified with a specific locality.

Walter Burkert observes that " Frenzied women from whose lips the god speaks " are recorded in the Near East as in Mari in the second millennium BC and in Assyria in the first millennium BC.

" Walter Burkert finds that " the second element da-remains hopelessly ambiguous " and finds a " husband of Earth " reading " quite impossible to prove.

Conversely, Walter Burkert suggests that the Hellene cult worship of Poseidon as a horse god may be connected to the introduction of the horse and war-chariot from Anatolia to Greece around 1600 BC.

" In cult, Poseidon was identified with Erechtheus ," Walter Burkert noted ; " the myth turns this into a temporal-causal sequence: in his anger at losing, Poseidon led his son Eumolpus against Athens and killed Erectheus.

Walter Burkert detects in the Polyphemus episode a subtext that " seems to offer us something more ancient: threatened by the man-eater, men conceal themselves in the skins of slaughtered animals, and thus, disguised as animals, escape the groping hands of the blinded monster.

* Burkert Walter ( 1985 ).

* Burkert, Walter, Greek Religion ( 1985 )

As Walter Burkert points out in his book, Greek Religion, " Even the gods who are not his natural children address him as Father, and all the gods rise in his presence.

The similarity of names between Hestia and Vesta is, however, misleading: " The relationship hestia-histie-Vesta cannot be explained in terms of Indo-European linguistics ; borrowings from a third language must also be involved ," scholar Walter Burkert has written.

" ( Plutarch, Life of Cimon, quoted Burkert 1985, p. 206 ).

* Burkert, Walter, 1985.

* Burkert, Walter Greek Religion, Harvard University Press, ISBN 0-674-36280-2 ( 1985 ); Orig.

* Burkert, Walter, 1985. Greek Religion, " Foreign gods " p 176f

The Meliae belong to a class of sisterhoods whose nature is to appear collectively and who are invoked in the plural, though genealogical myths, especially in Hesiod, give them individual names, such as Melia, " but these are quite clearly secondary and carry no great weight " ( Burkert 1985 III. 3. 2 ).

* Burkert, Walter, 1985.

Pan might be multiplied as the Panes ( Burkert 1985, III. 3. 2 ; Ruck and Staples 1994 p 132 ) or the Paniskoi.

Later, for the Classical Greeks, " She is closely associated with Artemis and Hera ," Burkert asserts ( 1985, p 1761 ) " but develops no character of her own.

Here she was probably being worshipped before Zeus arrived in the Aegean, but certainly in Minoan-Mycenaean times ( Burkert 1985 p 171 ; Nilsson 1950: 53 ).

* Burkert, Walter, Greek Religion, 1985.

* Burkert, Walter, 1985.

After prayers the foetid remains of the pigs from the previous year were mixed with seeds and planted ( Scholiast on Lucian ): "" the clearest example in Greek religion of agrarian magic ," Burkert observes ( 1985 p 244 ).

* Burkert, Walter, 1985.

* Walter Burkert, Greek Religion 1985

Compared to this mighty goddess, who also possessed the earliest temple at Olympia and two of the great fifth and sixth century temples of Paestum, the termagant of Homer and the myths is an " almost ... comic figure " according to Burkert.

* 1907 – Walter Wolf, German politician ( d. 1977 )

** J. Walter Kennedy, former NBA commissioner ( d. 1977 )

* January 2 – Walter Baldwin, American actor ( d. 1977 )

Walter Frederick " Fritz " Mondale ( born January 5, 1928 ) is an American Democratic Party politician who served as the 42nd Vice President of the United States ( 1977 – 1981 ) under President Jimmy Carter, and as a United States Senator from Minnesota ( 1964 – 1976 ).

* 1978: Walter Kerr, New York Times, " for articles on the theater in 1977 and throughout his long career.

* 1977 — Walter Gilbert and Allan Maxam present a rapid DNA sequencing technique which uses cloning, base destroying chemicals, and gel electrophoresis.

* Forward Walter Davis, 1977 – 1988

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* Walter Scheel ( 1975 – 1977 )

Walter Mondale, Vice-President of the United States under Jimmy Carter ( 1977 – 1981 ) and the Democratic Party's nominee for President in 1984, attended Heron Lake Public High School and lived in the Methodist Episcopal Church parsonage ( still present in the town ) for three years prior to 1946.

The sanctuary was founded in 1977 by ornithologist Walter C. Crawford, Jr. Crawford began his career at the St. Louis City Zoo.

After Groves ' fourteen years ' tenure as principal conductor, each of his three successors remained in post for much shorter periods ; Walter Weller from 1977 to 1980, David Atherton from 1980 to 1983 and Marek Janowski from 1983 to 1987.

In 1977, county officials in Nye County tried to shut down Walter Plankinton's Chicken Ranch as a public nuisance ; brothels did not have to be licensed in that county at the time, and several others were operating.

His other Broadway performance was as Walter Cole in David Marnet's American Buffalo, which opened at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre on 16 February 1977 and closed at the Belasco Theatre on 11 June 1977.

In 1977 Duvall returned to Broadway to appear as Walter Cole in David Mamet's American Buffalo.

The O ' Jays are an American R & B group from Canton, Ohio, formed in 1958 and originally consisting of Eddie Levert ( born June 16, 1942 ), Walter Williams ( born August 25, 1943 ), William Powell ( January 20, 1942 – May 26, 1977 ), Bobby Massey and Bill Isles.

* 1977: Walter De Maria's ' Vertical Earth Kilometer ' in Kassel, Germany.

* Walter Johnson MP ( January – May 1977 ( acting ); ( 1977 – 1981 )

* Walter Johnson MP ( 1965 – 1977 )

## Walter Mondale ( January 20, 1977 – January 20, 1981 )

The Burton Cooper, Coopers Square Shopping Centre The bronze sculpture, The Burton Cooper by James Butler ( artist ) | James Walter Butler was commissioned in 1977 and depicts a local craftsman.