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Cook, Arthur B.
Zeus: a study in ancient religion (Band 3,1): Zeus god of the dark sky (earthquake, clouds, wind, dew, rain, meteorits): Text and notes — Cambridge, 1940

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18 Zeus and the Earthquakes

It implies the ancient cosmological idea that the earth rests upon
water1—an idea perpetuated on the one hand by the popular belief
in floating islands2, on the other hand by the philosophic belief that
the world3 or the earth is a ship4 and that earthquakes are due to
waves of the nether sea5.

but Ephialtes (a kratir at Vienna published by J. Millingen Ancient Unedited Monuments
London 1822 i. 17—20 pis. 7 ( = my fig. 5) and 8, Lenormant—de Witte El. //ion. cir.
i. 10 f. pi. 5, A. de La Borde Collection des vases grecs de M. le comte de Lamberg Paris
1813—1824 i. pi. 4i = Reinach Rip. Vases ii. 188, r, Overbeck op. cit. p. 330 no. 3 Atlas
pi. 13, 1. The rock shows a polyp, a dolphin, etc., a prawn (?), a goat, a snake, and
a scorpion). The change of name is ingeniously explained by O. Benndorf in the
Arch.-ep. Mitth. 1893 xvi. 106 (followed by O. Hofer in Roscher Lex. Myth. iii. 2784 f.),
who conjectures that, just as Nisyros was believed to have been broken from Kos
(probably from Cape Chelone: see Paus. 1. 2. 4) and flung by Poseidon at the Giant
Polybotes, so Saros was believed to have been broken from Cape Ephialtion (Ptol. 5. 2.
33) in Karpathos and flung by Poseidon at the Giant Ephialtes. It is noteworthy that
Nisyros occurs, not only as the name of the island off Kos, but also as that of a town on
Kalydna (Plin. nat. hist. 5. 133) and as that of a town on Karpathos (Strab. 489, cp. an
inscription from Tristomo in Karpathos published by M. Beaudouin in the Bull. Corr.
Hell. 1880 iv. 262 f. no. 1, 1 ff.=7nscr. Gr. ins. i no. 1035, 1 ff. Me\dv8ws \ MeveKpar-
evs I T5pvKo6vTios, j 'En-ao'eros 'PdSios | Ntcri^ptos, | 2a)(r/7roAts [ ' Apxi-Kparevs | BoukoiWio?, j
aiptdivres lepayui\\y]ol oxd roO <T(5c7raj'|[TOs] Sdp.ov UoT[ei5S.]\[vi Uop]0p.i[ut]). A. Fick
Vorgriechische Ortsna/nen Gottingen 1905 pp. 51, 119 (Carian), 164 (Hittite, perhaps
Lelegian).

1 So in the cosmogonies of (1) Babylonia (P. Jensen Die Kosmologie der Babylonier
Strassburg 1890 pp. 253, 254 f., 257 with pi. (3) (= R. Eisler Weltenmantel und
Himmelszelt Miinchen 1910 ii. 628 fig. 80, cp. G. Maspero The Dawn of Civilization
London 1901 p. 542 f. with fig.), F. Lukas Die Grundbegriffe in den Kosmogonien der
alten Volker Leipzig 1893 pp. 4, 43, M. Jastrow The Religio/i of Babylonia and Assyria
Boston etc. 1898 p. 430, id. Aspects of Religious Belief and Practice in Babylo/iia a/id
Assyria New York and London 1911 pp. 87—91, F. Hommel Die fusel der Seligen in
Mythus und Sage der Vorzeit Miinchen 1901 p. 37 fig., A. H. Sayce in J. Hastings
Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics Edinburgh 1911 iv. 1 28 f., A. Jeremias Handbuch
der altorientalischen Geisteskultur Leipzig 1913 p. 61 f.); (2) Palestine (J. Skinner
A critical and exegetical Commentary on Genesis Edinburgh 1910 pp. 17, 164,8. R. Driver
A critical and exegetical Commentary on Deutero/tomy'1 Edinburgh 1896 p. 406, C. A.
Briggs and E. G. Briggs A critical and exegetical Commentary on the Book of Psalms
Edinburgh 1906 i. 215, F. Lukas op. cit. p. 43 f.: see Gen. 7. 11, 8. 2, 49. 25, Ex. 20. 4,
Deut. 4. 18, 5. 8, 33. 13, Job 38. 16, Ps. 24. 2, 136. 6, Prov. 8. 28, Am. 7. 4, etc.);

(3) Egypt (?) (E- A- Wallis Budge The Gods of the Egyptians London 1904 i. 288 ff.,
F. Hommel Ethnologie und Geographie des alten Orients Miinchen 1926 p. 844 n. 4);

(4) India (L. de la Vallee Poussin in J. Hastings E/icyclopcedia of Religion and Ethics
Edinburgh 19 n iv. 131 Buddhist cosmogony, H. Jacobin, iv. 15 7 Brahmana and Upanisad
cosmogony, id. ib. iv. 158 ff. epic and Purana cosmogony, id. ib. iv. 161 Jain cosmography.
See also A. A. Macdonell Vedic Mythology Strassburg 1897 p. 14, supra ii. 1035 f.);

(5) Japan (M. Revon in J. Hastings op. cit. iv. 162 f.).

2 Infra Append. P.

3 For the cosmic oA/ras of the Pythagoreans see Philolaos frag. 12 Diels (supra i. 358
n. 3, ii- 44 n. 2). Cp. Philolaos ap. Stob. eel. 1. 21. 6d p. 186, 27 ff. Wachsmuth = H. Diels
Doxographi Graeci Berolini 1879 P- 332 t> '9 ff-=id- Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker3
Berlin 1912 i. 306, 26 f. to de rffep.oviKOV iv tuS ixeaaiTaTip irvpl, oirep Tptnrews SlKrjv TrpovTre-
p&Xero rrjs tou ttcivtos < <r<patpas (suppl. A. H. L. Heeren) > 6 5r]p.wvpybs 8e6s. Miss H.
Richardson in an important paper on 'The Myth of Er (Plato, Republic, 616 b)' makes it
 
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