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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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Aiolos Hippotades

to the Winds1. And his employment of bags recalls the methods
used by unsophisticated folk to capture souls2.

The same power of controlling violent winds was ascribed by
the Greeks to Pythagoras, Epimenides, and Abaris3. Indeed, any
and every wonder-worker could claim the prerogative—even
Sophokles4. Nowadays, it would seem, the mere mention of the
great man's name will suffice. In the Macedonian district of
Liakkovikia, during an anemospldda or 'whirlwind,' people often
mutter the charm: 'Alexander the Great liveth, aye he doth live
and reign5.'

(b) Aiolos Hippotades.

A figure interesting in this connexion is that of Aiolos
Hippotades. He appears in the Odyssey* as Lord of Aiolie, a
floating island7 with sheer rocky sides crowned by a wall of un-
breakable bronze. Here be feasted with his six sons, whom he had
united in wedlock with his six daughters. Here too he entertained
Odysseus for a month, at the end of which time he slew an ox, made
a bag of its skin, bound the blustering winds within it, and gave it
as a parting gift to the hero, fastening it with a silver cord on board
his ship. He also supplied him with a west wind to waft him on his
way homewards. But later, while Odysseus slept, his comrades,
under the belief that the bag was full of treasure, untied it and, to
their own discomfiture, let loose the warring winds.

Now Aiolos is said to have been established as keeper, or king,

1 Hesych. dpe/Miras' 6Vos S0eros (so Salmasius for ovo/xa atpeKris cod.), lepbs, tois' Avt/xois
8vbp,evos ev TapavTtvois, et. mag. p. 103, 33 f. dvefivras (sic)- wapa. Tapavrlvois 0 ovos u
Avifiois 0v6/xevos. Supra ii. 464. Cp. the sacrifice of asses to Apollon among the
"iirepfibpeoi 'at the back of the North Wind' (supra ii. 463 f., 494 ff., 843).

2 Frazer Golden Bough2,: Taboo pp. 46 ff., 52 f., 64, 67, 75 f., id. Folk-lore in the Old
Testament ii. jioff.

3 Porph. v. Pyth. 29 irpopp-qatis re yap dirapdftaToi aewixdv Siaiiv-qLLovevovTai avrov
(sc. tou IJvBaybpov) Kal Xoifi&v dirorpoiral criV raxei Kal avtfiiov piataf xaXa^Q>v t' eKX"rTeus
KCLTa<TTo\aX Kal KVLiarwit iroTap.lu)v re Kai daXaTTiwv airevSia(rp.0l ypbs ev/iapi} tQ>v eraipwv
Siafiaviv. Iv faeraXapbvTas'E^TreSojcXea re Kal '~&irip.evidt)v Kal"' Aftapiv woXXaxv e-n-^ereXeKhai
roiavra. k.t.X. = Iambi, v. Pyth. 135 -irpopprjcreLs re aeiap.Q>v dirapd^aroi Kal Xotp-wf airoTpoiral
cbv rax^t- Kal dvep.aiv fiialwv xaXa^wv re xtytrews irapavrlKa KaTcvvrjaeis Kal KVjj.dru)v iraTapxuv
re Kal daXaaalwv direvbia^ixol wpbs evfiaprj twp eralpwv didfiaaiv. uji> fj.€TaXa(HbvTas 'E/X7re-
SoKXea re tov ' AKpayavrlvov Kal "Hwip-eviSriv tov Kp^ra Kal "A(3aptv tov 'Tirep(36ptov woXXaxv
Kal avTods roiaSra Tiva eiriTCTeXeKt'iiat. k.t.X.

4 Philostr. v. Apoll. 8. 7. 8 p. 313 Kayser evvor/o-as 5e 2o0o/cAra tov 'A8i]vaTov, 6s
Xeyerai Kal dvep,ovs OeXi;ai rijs uipas Tr4pa irvevo-avras. A. von Blumenthal in Pauly—
Wissowa Real-Enc. iii A. 1047 comments: 'Hier hat wohl das Empedoklesbild einge-
wirkt.'

5 G. F. Abbott Macedonian Folklore Cambridge 1903 p. 250 f. Zij, £rj Kal /}a<ri\ei)ei 6
Meyas 'AXe^avSpos (from A. A. Tovcriov ''H Kara rb lldyyaiov Xwpa' p. 79). Possibly
AXQavBpos has acquired the virtues of 'AXefacir/xas.

6 Od. 10. 1 ff. 7 Infra Append. P (1).
 
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