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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

totle's1 treatise on meteorology. The philosopher compares thunder
to 'the crackle heard in the flame, which some call Hephaistos
laughing, others Hestia, others again their threatening.' Hephaistos,
then, was ordinary fire, the fire that burns and crackles on the
hearth. He was also the jet of flaming gas that leaps like a fountain
from the rocky vent. For not only did such jets give rise to the
Lycian place-names Hephaistion, Hephaistia, or the Mountains of
Hephaistos2, but the lambent flame was worshipped as the very
god. L. Malten3 justly lays stress on the well-informed words of
Maximus Tyrius4: 'For the Lycians Olympos sends up fire, not
like that of Aitne, but peaceful and mild; and this fire is at once
the place and the object of their cult.' It must not, however, be
forgotten that earthly fire was commonly conceived as stolen or
fallen from heaven5. Hesiod, Aischylos, and others speak of Pf°"
metheus' theft6. Homer tells how Hephaistos, flung from heaven by
Zeus because he had dared to help Hera, fell on Lemnos and was
there tended by the Sinties7, or how after his fall (due to the
unkindness of his mother who wanted to conceal her lame offspring)
he was hidden for nine years in a hollow cave by Eurynome and
Thetis8. The descent of Hephaistos on Lemnos gave curative

1 Aristot. meteor. 2. 9 369 a 29 ff. yiverai 5' i) irXriyri rbv avrbv rpbtrov, us rrapeiKaff"-1
p.eij,'ovt p.iKpbv irddos, ro? ev rjj <p\oyl yivop.h\p tf/bqbip, &v Kahovtriv oi p.ev rbv "li(paio'tov
ye\dv, oi be rr]v 'Eariav, oi d' direiXijv rovriov.

2 Supra ii. 972 n. t.

J L. Malten in Pauly—Wissowa Real-Enc. viii. 319, 328, id. in the fahrb. d. *alSt
deutsch. arch. Inst. 1912 xxvii. 237.

* Max. Tyr. diss. 8. 8 Diibner Avriois 6 "0\vp.iros trvp ikSiBoi, ovx bp.oiov to} Airvatft
d\\' eiprjviKov Kal av/xfierpov Kai earlv avroh rb trvp rovro Kai iepbv Kal ayaXfta.

5 See e.g. A. Kuhn Die Herabkunft des Fetters mid des Gbtterlranks- Gtitersloh 1°
passim, C. Swainson The Folk Lore and Provincial Names of British Birds London 1°
pp. 16 f. (robin), 42 and 124 (wren), P. Sebillot Le Folk-lore de France Paris 19°^ lU'
156 f. (wren, robin, lark), 159 (swallow), O. Schrader in J. Hastings Encyclopccdta of
Religion and Ethics Edinburgh 1909 ii. 39 b, E. Hammarstedt in M. Ebert A'calle*'*0"
der Vorgeschichte Berlin 1925 iii. 279.

8 Supra i. 323 f.

7 //. t. 590 ff., cp.Val. Flacc. 2. 87 ff, Apollod. r. 3. 6, Loukian. de sacrif. 6, My*"-
Vat. 1. 128, 2. 37, 2. 40, 3. 10. 4, alio. Anth. Pal. 15. 26. 8 (Dosiadas) p.arpbpp^roS
Perhaps p.arpbppnrvos cod. points to a compound of p.arpo- with piKvbs, cp. ^P' ^
nais epibs'llqiaiaros, piKvbs irbbas. j

8 II. 18. 394 ff. Cp. the refuge of Dionysos as described by Eumel. frag. i° &n £
ap. schol. A.D. //. 6. 131 irapo.yivbp.evov be avrbv eis rijv Qpq.Kt]v AvKovpyos b ApbaPJ0*
Xvirrjcras "Hpas p-lirei, p.voiiri dweXavvei avrbv T?js yrjs Kal Kaddirrerai avrov na

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be 6 rijv Ebputriav irexoiTj/cws ECp.i)\os.
 
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