Zenopus wrote in 1974 1st printing white D&D box set:I made a blog post about those dice today & linked back to this thread:
Dice of the GodsRon, a request - could your friend take another picture of the rest of the text on the insert? If the dice were slid up, he could probably get the rest of the text in a single pic.
The text about ancient Greeks & cosmic meanings would have fed the "what is it?" reaction that people had to early
RPGs.
RPG rules put the magical aspects into the imaginary game world, but games like the Ouija board or the Magic 8-Ball suggest that mystical forces are actually at work. The text with these dice suggests the latter.