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İngilizce Yunanca

46 That lak is passynge depe. I assayde it not, but men seyn that it hath wel mo than a 200 fadmes; and in the myd place ther of stont an awtere of stone. Seeynge it on a sodeyne, thou woldest trowen that it fleyted and rode upon the water, and manye men wenen thus; but I suppose that a gret piler pight undernethe bereth up the awtere. And it is ever more dressed with gerlondes and hath encens brennynge, and manye swymmen overthwart to it eech day for a vowe that thei han, and bryngen gerlondes.Gruppe (Gr. Myth. u. Religionsgesch., p. 813) connects this "Floating” island with the holy island of Tyre, the floating island of Chemmis in the swamps of Buto, and with the Greek stories of Delos and Patmos.

47 At that place ben wondur grete festes, the which highte Desceyntes unto the Lak, be cause that in tho festes alle the ydoles gon doun to the lak. Amonges hem Iuno cometh first, be cause of the fissches, to the entente that Iove schalle not seen hem first; for if so be that this happeth, thei dyen alle, as men seyn. And for sothe he cometh to seen hem, but sche, stondynge beforn him, letteth; «3 him, and with manye supplicatiouns sendeth him his: ** weye."The rite of descending to the water (xardBaois, Semitic yerid) was common all over Syria. . . . Its purpose was to revive the water-sources and bring rain” (Dussaud, Pauly- Wissowa s.v. Hadad). Why the fish should need protection from Hadad is a mystery to me, unless here too Hadad had begun to be identified with the sun.