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)

The deity of the double axe 551

' heraldic figure1/ but as the youthful consort of the Hittite earth-

Fig. 428.

1 J. Garstang op. cit. p. 228. Parrot—Chipiez loc. cit. say cautiously: ' un dieu.'
J. Garstang op. cit. p. 239 f. would identify ' the dirk-deity'...' with the Sandon of Tarsus,
Hercules son of Zeus,' pointing out that Hercules too wore a lion-skin. Frazer op. cit? i.
139 : 'their god was a lion, or rather a lion-man, a being in whom the bestial and human