Gnossus
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The Curetes, in Crete, had builded an altar to Heaven and to Earth; whose Mysteries they celebrated at Gnossus, in a cypress grove.
From Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Albert Pike
Spear-renowned Idomeneus commanded the Cretans, those who possessed Gnossus and well-walled Gortyna and Lyctos, and Miletus, and white Lycastus and Phæstus, and Rhytium, well-inhabited cities; and others who inhabited the hundred-towned Crete.
From The Iliad of Homer (1873) by Theodore Alois Buckley
We decided on attacking a ruin on the acropolis of Gnossus, already partially exposed by the searches of local diggers for antiques.
From The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume II by William James Stillman
Then all the peaks of Gnossus kindled red Beckoning afar unto the sinking sun, he thro' the vaporous west plunged to his bed, Sunk, and the day was done.
From The Poetical Works of Robert Bridges by Robert Bridges
Illustrious Vulcan likewise adorned it with a dance, like unto that which, in wide Gnossus, Dædalus contrived for fair-haired Ariadne.
From The Iliad of Homer (1873) by Theodore Alois Buckley
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