Cook, Arthur B.: Zeus: a study in ancient religion (Band 1): Zeus god of the bright sky (Cambridge, 1914)

Persons Places Festivals 829

Merops

Metamorphosed into eagle 755$
Mesembria, coins of 254
Messalina, in guise of Demeter 228
Messene

Cults : Demeter and Kore 442 (?) Zeus
'leio^aras 121 f. 154

Rite : human ttQXoi 442 (?)

Myth: infancy of Zeus 154
Messogis, Mt, Zeus born on 151
Mestra 144 3285
Metaneira 1750 211
Metapontum

Cults: Dionysos 'Eptycos 674 ff. 705
Zeus "Aww 372 376

Meter

Cults : Athens 676 f. Delos 5504 Pei-
raieus 442

Epithets : 17 irdvrwv Kparovaa 5504
'I8eta {sic) 4006 Meyd\v 4006 5504
'OpaLa {sic) 442

Festival: Galaxia 676 f.

Rites : barley boiled in milk 676 re-
birth 677

Associated toith Attis 742x Zeus 6
iravTWV KparCov 550*4

See also Mother of the gods
Methana

Cult: Hephaistos 328
Michael 169 233

Midas lllj 137 throne of, at Delphoi 139
Midhgardh-serpent, the 185
Miletos 740

Cult: Zeus Noctos 7336

Rite : Atos jSous 7170
Milky Way

Myth: 624 755

- in folk-lore 6244 in modern art

6244

Mimallones 6674
Mimas (?) 15612
Minerva 619

Cult: Eome 59n

Attributes: helmet 616 lance 616

shield 324
Types: bust 616 thoughtful 343 in

quadriga 7124
Associated with Iupiter and Iuno 60
Minerva, a Cretan princess 662
Minos

Epithet: 6\ob<f>puv 6572

Myths: 464 ff. Britomartis 524 6236
dazzling bull 7204 death of Glaukos
469 ff. Diktynna 524 founds Gaza
235 Ganymedes 527i Labyrinth
496 as ogre (?) 657 f. Talos 719
7198 721 war with Athens 319

Metamorphosed into eagle (?) 5274

Genealogy : f. of Akakallis 366 f. of
Asterios by Androgeneia 4931 f. of
Glaukos by Pasiphae 469 f. h. of
Idaia 544.2 h. of Idea ( = Idaia)
4932 h. of Pasiphae 416 s. of Zeus
'Acrreptos 545s 547 s. of Zeus by
Europe 464 467 648

Minos {cont.)

Functions: divine king 662x hypo-
stasis of Cretan Zeus (?) 527i

Attributes: bay 235 sceptre 493

Type : helmeted head (?) 235 helmeted
warrior holding bay 235

Associated with Britomartis 524 5274
541 543 Diktynna 524 541 543

- panegyric of Zeus made by 1573

6632 tomb of 1582
Minotaur 490 ff.

Cult: Knossos 297

Epithets : 'Aartpios 465 493 ff. 524 543
546 'Aarepiwv 493 ff: 524 543 546

Myths: 464 ff. devours youths and
maidens 319 658 slain by Theseus
240 492 ff. 496

Genealogy : s. of Pasiphae 465 f. 491

Functions : Cnossian crown - prince
masquerading in solar dance (?)
491 658 god of sun, moon, and
stars 495 solar 297 490 ff. 546 635
stellar 524

Attributes: mask 492 staff 492 star (?)
493 ff. 4950

Types: bull-headed child (?) 4660 bull-
headed figure throwing stones 720 f.
bull's tail but human head 496 4962
dragged by Theseus out of Laby-
rinth 474 ff. flecked 493 spangled
with stars 493 sprinkled with eyes

493 f. surrounded by dots (stars?)

494 f.

- as dance-theme 496

Associated with Pasiphae 4660
Compared with Cilician disk-bearing
god 297f. Phoenician Kronos 298(?)
722 f. Talos 297 f. 720 ff.

Mintha or Minthe

Genealogy : d. of Peitho 257
Identified with lynx 257
See also Menthe

Minyans 6895

Mitani 1903

Mithraic(?) cult of Diskos 299
Mithras 1903

Cults: Konjica 443 Nemroud Dagh

7425 (?) 744 ff.* 748 Tyana 7425
Epithets: At'/catos 7425 TpiirXaacos 5164
Rites: \eovTuca 443 sacrifice oT bull
516 ff.

Personated by Antiochos i of Komma-

gene (?) 7425
Myth: 5026 516ff.

Functions: god of friendship 1903
light 1903 mediator 1903 Mercury
the planet 746x rain(?) 1903 solar (?)
1903 1904 7464 god of truth 1903
upper air (?) 1903 xpyxoiro/xwos 746i

Etymology: 1903

Worshippers: deros, gryphus, helio-
dromus, iepa^, Kopa^, Xeaiva, \eojv,
miles, pater, pater patratus, pater
patrum, Perses 443j

Attributes: barsom 746 bull 516i crow