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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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74 The Clouds personified in Cult and Myth

much admixture and amplification. A. H. Krappe1 has analysed it,
in my opinion successfully, and has shown that it combines, not
only the old Greek belief in the king's responsibility for the crops
and the old Greek custom of sacrificing him or his son in time of
famine, but also a whole bunch of folk-tale motifs—the jealousy of
the heavenly wife (rMelusine2'),the wicked step-mother('Briiderchen
und Schwesterchen3'), and the helpful animal ('Einauglein, Zweiaug-
lein und Dreiauglein4').

A curious modification of this union between a mortal man and
the cloud-goddess may be detected in sundry other myths. It would
seem that the ancient mating of man with goddess struck the later
Greeks as blasphemous. They therefore said that such and such
a hero had become enamoured of such and such a goddess, but that
Zeus had substituted for her a phantom made out of cloud. Thus
Endymion, in the Hesiodic poem entitled The Great EoiaP, was
raised to heaven by Zeus and fell in love with Hera, but was deluded
by a cloud-phantom and cast down to Hades6. Similarly, when
Ixion paid court to Hera, Zeus, according to the usual version7, or

1 A. H. Krappe 'The Story of Phrixos and Modern Folklore' in Folk-Lore 1923
xxxiv. 141—147. Id. 'La legende d'Athamas et de Phrixos' in the Rev. £t. Gr. 1924
xxxvii. 381—389 discusses some remaining difficulties in this complex tale and proposes
(id. p. 385) to reconstitute its final form as follows: ' Athamas repudie Nephele et epouse
une femme mortelle, qui lui donne plusieurs enfants. Jalouse de sa rivale qu'elle hait,
Nephele provoque une famine, sachant que par ce moyen le fils de sa rivale sera immole
a l'autel. Pour sauver son enfant d'une mort terrible, la pauvre mere se suicide et
devient une divinite bienveillante.'

2 Supra p. 73 n. 3.

s A. Aarne Verzeichnis der Mdrchentypen (Communications edited for the Folklore
Fellows by J. Bolte, K. Krohn, A. Olrik, C. W. v. Sydow. No. 3) Helsinki 1910 p. 19 f.
no. 450, J. Bolte—G. Polivka Anmerkungen zu den Kinder- u. Hausmarchen der Briider
Grimm Leipzig 1913 i. 79 ff. no. 1 J.

* A. Aarne op. cit. p. 23 no. 511, J. Bolte—G. Polivka op. cit. Leipzig 1918 iii. 60 ff.
no. 130.

5 A. Rzach in Pauly—Wissowa Real-Enc. viii. 1204 f., W. Christ Geschichte der
griechischen Litteratur* Munchen 1912 i. 123 f.

6 J3.es /rag. 160 Kinkel, 148 Rzach, ap. schol. Ap. Rhod. 4. 57 iv Be rats iJ.eyaXa.is
'llolais X^yerat rbv 'Evdvp-luva avevexSyvai. virb rod Aiis eh ovpavbv. epaadivra 5e"Epas ei5w\w
irapaKoyurByvai [rbv tpoira, (om. H. Keil)] vefyEKys koX iK^Xydivra. KareXBelv els'''AiSov = Eu-
dok. viol. 344.

1 P. Weizsacker in Roscher Lex. Myth. ii. 766 ff., R, Wagner ib. iii. 180 f. The
principal sources are: Pind. Pylh. 2. 25 ff. evp.evi<jai. yap vapa KpoWSais | yXvKuu t\i)v
(Uotov, /J-aKpbv oix vtreixeivev &\f}ov, fiawonivais (ppaalv |"Hpas St ipaaaaTO, ran Aids eival
\dxov I iro\vya&ies- aWd viv tiflpis eis avarav vwepacpavov \ ipcrev, 36 ff. ^7rei ve<fi£\a. irape-
Ae^aTO, I l/zeMos y\vKv p.eOeiruv, di'Spis dv-rjp- \ eloos yap virepoxuTdrq, irpitcev ovpaviav (so
A. Boeckh, C A. M. Fennell, Sir J. E. Sandys with codd. D. E. cett. T. Bergk, followed
by B. L. Gildersleeve and W. Christ, cj. OipaviSdv. T. Mommsen, followed by O. Schroder,
reads OOpavtSa, cp. schol. vet. ad loc. tov oipavlov \ipbvov) \ Ovyartpi Kpbvov acre S6\ov
aura diaav \ Zijvbs TraXdfiai, ko\6v Trrjfia. k.t.X., schol. Ap. Rhod. 3. 62 e\erj<ras oui> 6 Tieis
 
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