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father's savage anger, fled to the shore and hurled themselves from a
cliff. Apollon, however, established them in the Chersonesos, giving
Parthenos a precinct at Boubastos and Molpadia a sanctuary at
Kastabos, where 'owing to her divinely-contrived epiphany1' she
received the name of Hemithea. Libations to her are made with
honey-mixture {melikraton), not wine ; and no man that has touched
a pig or eaten of its flesh may approach her precinct. Here she
manifests herself by night, working cures and helping women in
childbirth. Each successive detail confirms us in the belief that at
Kastabos, as in Tenedos, Hemithea was essentially an earth-goddess.

The myths told of the two localities had other points in common.
Not only are the names Molpos and Hemithea in Tenedos balanced
by the names Molpadia and Hemithea at Kastabos, but the episode
of Tennes and Hemithea sent to sea in a chest is paralleled by the
episode of Rhoio and Anios similarly cast adrift. This motif is best
known from the story of Danae and Perseus. It occurs, however, in at
least two other Greek tales, the Tegeate tale of Auge and Telephos2,
and that of Semele and Dionysos as told at Brasiai in Lakonike:;,
not to mention Romulus and Remus in Italy. Tn fact, the Danae-
formula, as J. G. von Hahn4 and T. F. Crane5 have pointed out, recurs
in modern Marchen from Naples6, Tuscany7, Wallachia8, Epeiros9,
etc.10. The Epirote tale, entitled The Half-Man, deserves repetition :

1 ota t7]v airb rod deov yevofxevr^v eirMpaveiav H/j.ideav ihvo/j.d<jdai. P. Wesseling ad loc. :
' Mallem d7rd rrjs deov. Ipsa Molpadia videtur indicari, quae praesentem opem aegris
ferebat, rots Kap-vovai Kara tovs virvovs ttpiarafxevri (pavepQs.'

2 Immerwahr Kult. Myth. Arkad. p. 55 ff., K. Wernicke in Pauly—Wissowa Real-
Enc. ii. 2300 ff., Gruppe Gr. Myth, Rel. p. 204 n. 11.

3 Paus. 3. 24. 3 f.

4 J. G. von Hahn Griechische und albancsische Marchen Leipzig 1864 i. 49. The
formula is missing from the list drawn up by S. Baring-Gould and J. Jacobs in C. S. Burne
The Handbook of Folklore London 1914 p. 344 ff. But it has been admirably studied by
E. Cosquin ' Le lait de la mere et le coffre flottant' in the Revue des Questions Historiques
Nouvelle Serie 1908 xxxix 353—425 (especially p. 370ff. ' Le coffre flottant').

5 T. F. Crane Italian Popular Tales London 1885 p. 336.

6 G. B. Basile // Pentamerone trans. Sir R. F. Burton London 1893 i. 30ff. (First
Day : Third Diversion ' Peruonto'), E. F. Strange Stories from the Pentamerone London
1911 p. 22 ff. Peruonto, the princess Vastolla, and their two children, shut up in a cask
with a basket of raisins and dried figs, are thrown into the sea.

See also F. W. V. Schmidt Die Marchen des Straparola Berlin 1817 no. 15 and
W. G. Waters The Nights of Straparola London 1894 i. 35 ff. (Night One: Fable 4
Doralice in the chest on board ship).

7 G. Pitre Novelle popolari toscane Firenze 1885 no. 30.

8 A. and A. Schott Walachische Maehrchen Stuttgart—Tubingen 1845 no. 27.

' J. G. von Plahn Griechische und albancsische Marchen Leipzig 1864 i- 102 ff. See
supra i. 414 n. 2.

10 In a tale told by the Kirghiz of Siberia the daughter of a certain Khan, kept in a
dark iron house, escapes into the bright world. Here the eye of God falls upon her and
she conceives. Her angry father puts her in a golden chest and sends her floating across