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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

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664 The double axes of Tenedos

responding with the divine triad Zeus, Semele, and Dionysos
were the Kabeiroi1, whose names Axidkersos, Axiokersa, and
Axieros proclaim their connexion with the sacred axe2. More-
over, Hesychios15 expressly identifies the Kabeiroi with crabs,

1 For the Kabeiroi equated with Zeus and Dionysos see supra i. 112 n. 6, ii. 3 1 3 f.
They are apparently associated with a Dionysiac Zeus on a bronze plaque from Rome
(fig. 603= Arch. Zeit. 1854 pi. 65, 3, stipra p. 283), which combines Mithraic with
Sabazian and other elements in a manner suggestive of Thrace. Under an arch formed
of two trees, two snakes, and a lion's head (the Mithraic Ahriman: Append. G fin.) we

Fig. 603.

see a veiled female suppliant extending her arms towards the central figure of Zeus
Sabdzios (?), who brandishes a sort of double axe as he rides his horse between two
Kabeiroi (?). Above are Sun, Moon, and two Stars; below, a series of constellations—
Aquarius (?cp. G. Thiele Antike Hinwielsbilder Berlin 1898 p. 67 fig. 11), Aries, Taurus,
Pisces, Ara, Corvus, Crater. A ram's head {supra i. 390 ff.) and a syrinx (cp. supra
p. 296 n. 4 of Attis) occupy the field.

2 Supra i. 109, 328 n. 9, ii. 314 f.

3 Hesych. s.v. Kafieipoi- KapKivoi. wdvv 5£ TiixOvrai oiitol iv Kt)^vu> <i>s deal- \eyovrai
8e elvai. 'H0alarov Trai5es. That napicivoi here means simply 'crabs' is the opinion of
Stephanus Thes. Gr. Ling. iv. 748 c and O. Kern in Pauly—Wissowa Real-Enc. x. 1450.
 
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