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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 i°7

of the winds by Zeus1. And Aethlios, son of Aiolos, was reputed to
be the son of Zeus2. There is therefore something to be urged for
Usener's suggestion that Aiolos himself was 'a sort of Zeus .
Perhaps the same thought occurred to Ovid, when he made Iupiter
shut Aquilo in the caves of Aeolia and send forth Notus to cause
a deluge4.

Others, however, have rightly insisted that the Homeric Aiolos
is not as yet fully deified5. Hence his description as 'dear to the
immortal gods6.' Rather, he is a subordinate power, not improbably
a dead tribal chieftain, who lives on in his Otherworld island7 and
is conceived as a superhuman magician, the wind-controller par
excellence. His bag of winds recalls an odd superstition recorded by
Tzetzes and the scholiast on the Odyssey*:

'Artful contrivers and those who write on infamous practices declare that, if
a man flays a dolphin and makes its skin into a bag and then keeps it at home,
he will cause to blow whatever wind he may choose.'

Somewhat similar is Philostratos' account of Indian weather-magic».
Apollonios of Tyana and his party are visiting the cloud-capped
hill of the Brachmanes, four days' journey from the city Parax:

'And they say that they saw two jars of black stone, filled with rains and
winds respectively. The jar of the rains is opened, if India should be oppressed

1 Od. to. 21 T*vln, ivitwv voir,** Kpolwf, Verg. Am. i. tp rex Aeolus, 65 f. divom
Pater atque hominum rex I et mulcere dedit ductus et tollere vento.

2 Paus. 5. 8. 2 cUai yip <pw col 'AMXwr M6\ov, A.fa Si irUXvw. It « dear from
the context that this Aiolos was the father of Kretheus. It is an assumption that he was
°ne with Aiolos Hippotades. _ .' ., , . •

3 H. Usener in the Khein. Mus. ,898 liii. 3+6 E Sckrtfm Leipzig-
Berlb ,9I3W. 275ft.): 'wieeine Art Zeus' (p. 346 ( = P- *7<S)>- We need not, of course
subscribe to Usener's view that AfoXos was the ' Zig-zag' lightning of Zeus (cp. Prod. Ufc
9- 4^ aioXo,3p6,ra A<6S atag.), or that his six pairs of children were the twelve months of the
year. G. Libertini Le isole Eolie nelt anlichita greca e romana B irenze 1921 p. 61 f. argues
*at Mippotes was a degraded form of Poseidon "Itttios, Aiolos an ex-appellative ol /.eus
(Pind. 01. 9. 42 aloXo^ra, Orph. h. Zeus 15. 10 aioXW^) or perhaps rather of
Poseidon, the ever-changeful. Ov. met. 1. 262 H-

8 A. H. Keane in J. Hastings Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics Edinburgh .908
*■ 2?5, G. Foucart ib. 1917 ix. 782.

6 Od. 10. 2. 7 Cp. supra i. 239, 243.

8 Tzetz. in Lyk. Al. 738 = schol. Od. 10. 2 <paal yip ol MX/ant* (J- P°tter Cj.
W7«tol G. F. Thrylhtzsch cj. lutiwarucol M. C. G. Mttller prints p»yoi, but notes:
'Vtrumque tamen, p.i.yoi et MTOWoot, bene se habet') <cai oi ra d/>/»I™W'™ yp^™

Hv ns 8e\0wa roifa dcr^ (Kbtipat airw Kol *X«" *V iaVTV> 1r»"'"'
a" MXon-o a,e/io... E. Scheer cp. Eustath. in Od. p. 1645, 59 >• «V *» ,f.

° Mdl toD AiAXoi; d™6s 5fX0?,oS c&a. Mffia, p. .646, 8 ff. Sn Si dwoi w Z^'0

<f ai7(S„ Kai ,W dXXd mi « M/x» «^X6, fan. «*X0?.<65 Tt yap 0 W*U o.<s
TfeXeo>«f>'os (trow ytyoriTivuivot k.t.X. ,„ „r>__„t

S Philostr. d. ^//. 3. ,4 p. 92 f. Kayser «j S.rru, *«« ^"^TT*

«Mft*» xe Kai W^ Jm ct.X. Euseb. »po, ro*. M, 'A.oXX^ov rev
I«po*XfaW Xi7ous 22 p. 388 Kayser scoffs at Ppovra, <tol W*«l» » *Wols-
'ncident is by no means incredible.
 
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