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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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Hephaistos and Athena

snakes, her owl1, her olive-tree2, her relations to the priestly king
Erechtheus3, in whose palace she had from the outset been housed1,
are indefeasible proofs of her ancient lineage. Even in the Periclean
age Pheidias' great statue of the Parthenos, with a snake at her
side, snakes round her waist, a snaky aigis over her shoulders, and a
pillar beneath her hand5, still perpetuated the esssential traits of a
'Minoan' prototype6.

Another pre-Greek deity of the Akropolis was Hephaistos, whose
name7, equally unintelligible with that of Athena8, presumably

1 Infra §9 (h) ii (X). 2 Supra p. 187 n. 2. 3 Supra ii. 794.

4 Od. 7. 80 f., cp. //. 2. 546 ff. (of later origin? See now J. M. Paton in L. D. Caskey—
H. N. Fowler—J. M. Paton—G. P. Stevens The Erechtheum Cambridge, Mass. 1927

PP- 431—433)-

5 Supra ii pi. xlv (in pocket at end).

6 On coins of the Oxyrhynchite nome showing Athena with the double axe see supra

ii. 625 f. figs. 529, 530. Jjjjig. 100 I add another of these
rare pieces from a specimen, struck by Antoninus Pius,
now in my collection.

7 The various forms of the name "H0aiffTos and the
various etymologies proposed for it by scholars ancient
and modern are listed by Gruppe Cult. Myth, orient.
Rel. i. 105 with n. 9, Gr. Myth. Eel. pp. 1304 n. 2,
1305 n. 1 and by L. Malten in Pauly—Wissowa Real-
Enc. viii. 340—342. The latter concludes: 'Eine
Deutung des Namens zu geben, ist zur Zeit noch nicht
moglich; in welcher Richtung sie zu suchen ist, lehrt
die oben dargestellte Entwicklungsgeschichte des
Gottes. Sie ergab zunachst, class der Gott vorgriechisch
ist; ftir vorgriechisch wird der Name H. jetzt auch von
pick Vorgriech. Ortsn. 66 erklart so wie der lemnische Mosychlos, an dem der Gott in
friiher Zeit festsitzt. Da H. bei den karisch-lykischen Volkern Kleinasiens seinen UrspniDg
hat, muss die Deutung im Kreise dieser Sprachidiome gesucht werden. ...Darf man von
der Art des Kults aus einen vorlaufigen Rfickschluss wagen, so liegt es am nachsten, e>ne
Hindeutung auf das Erdfeuer, die ursprlingliche Erscheinungsform des Gottes, auch m
dem Namen zu suchen.' See further L. Malten 'Hephaistos' in the Jahrb. d. kais-
deutsch. arch. Inst. 1912 xxvii. 232—264 with 12 figs.

R. Pettazzoni 'Philoktetes—Hephaistos' in the Rivista di filologia c d' islruzione
classica 1909 xxxvii. 170—189 (criticised by R. Wtinsch in the Archiv f. Rel. 19H xlV'
576 f.) holds that Philoktetes and Hephaistos were originally different forms of the same
«o«-Hellenic deity (their identity had been already asserted by F. Marx 'Philoktet—
Hephaistos' in the Neue fahrb.f. klass. Altertum 1904 xiii. 673—685) and that the name
of the former throws some light on the nature of the latter. Philoktetes was healed by
Pylios son of Hephaistos (Ptol. Hephaist. ap. Phot. bibl. p. 152 b 13 f. Bekker), and the
priests of Hephaistos in Lemnos had curative powers (Eustath. in II. p.. 33°>
Philoktetes, like Hephaistos, went limping. Philoktetes, like Hephaistos (supra i- 32^
fig- 259), wore thepilos. The pre-Hellenic god, who lies behind Philoktetes and Hephaistos,
was equated by the Phoenicians with their Esmun-Kadmilos. The name Kadm(il)°s coveis
a Semitic word for 'gold'—Kadmos discovered the gold-mines of Mt Pangaion (Plin- nat'
hist. 7. 197, Clem. Al. strom. 1. 16 p. 49, 6 ff. Stahlin, cp. Aristot./raf. 459 Rose; Stral •
680, Steph. Byz. s.v. 'IWvpta)—and the names *iXokt?jt?;s and Xpiari both point in tne
same direction. Thus Philoktetes = Hephaistos = Kadm(il)os, and we can understand tn
equivalence of Hephaistos and Chrysor (supra ii. 715, 1037). In fact, Kadmilos : Kabeir
 
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