Cook, Arthur B.: Zeus: a study in ancient religion (Band 2,1): Zeus god of the dark sky (thunder and lightning): Text and notes (Cambridge, 1925)

Dionysos at Delphoi 235

the same proportion, and here employ the paean for their sacrifices throughout
the greater part of the year ; but, when winter begins, they stir up the dithyramb
and stop the paean, calling for three months together upon the second god in
place of the first1. They take it that, as three is to one in point of nature, so in
point of time is the formation of the universe to its conflagration.'

The whole passage is obviously redolent of Greek philosophy.
Herakleitos, Pythagoras, Platon, the Stoics have contributed their
several quotas. But discounting all these philosophical elements

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we have yet a residuum of popular religion that is well deserving
of attention. It appears that at Delphoi Dionysos was admittedly
no less essential than Apollon, whom he actually dispossessed for

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