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 double axe and Zeus Labrayndos 595

(fig. 498) containing a seated effigy of Zeus Strdtios (?). The left
arm is raised. The lower limbs are wrapped in a mantle. The upper
part of the body is bare and shows remains of breasts. Here too we
should infer that the Hellenic father-god had usurped the position of
the Anatolian mother-goddess, and that local prejudice had to be

Fig. 498.

satisfied by the strange expedient of giving him 1 the breasts of her
consolations1.' On occasion, no doubt, the old order triumphed over
the new, and the resultant deity—despite his beard—was regarded
as a goddess rather than a god. Thus at Zougo or Zogui, a village

Zeus Stratios de Mithridate' in the Revue de Vhistoire des religions 1901 xliii. 47—57,
F. Cumont—E. Cumont Voyage d'exploration archeologique dans le Pont et la Petite
Arminie (Studio, Pontica ii) Bruxelles 1906 pp. 171—184 (' Le temple de Zeus Stratios '),
E. Kuhnert in Roscher Lex. Myth. iv. 1545—1550.
1 Is. 66. 11.

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