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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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Zeus Ikmaios

267

sacrifice before the rising of the dog-star. The poet's allusion to
Arkadia and Lykaon suggests that the altar of Zeus Ikmaios
resembled that of Zeus Lykaios on the summit of Mount Lykaion1.
We do not, however, hear that in Keos, as in Arkadia2 and Elis3, a
starving populace, when famine stared them in the face, resorted
to the desperate expedient of human sacrifice. Milder methods had
come into vogue. The priest of Zeus Lykaios made rain-magic with
an oak-branch4. And Aristaios, after sacrificing a bull, poured a
libation of honey on the altar of Zeus Ikmaios5—a libation
thoroughly appropriate to the god that sent refreshing dew6.

Aristaios, then, was famous as a culture-hero. But admittedly7
he was more than that. As early as 474 B.C. Pindar8 identifies him
with Zeus Aristaios or with Apollon Agreils and Nomios—high
gods of field and fold. Cheiron, foretelling to Apollon the destiny
of Kyrene's son, says that Hermes shall receive him from his mother
ar»d bring him to the fair-throned Horai and to Gaia:

And they shall set the babe upon their knees,
And nectar and ambrosia take, and these

Upon his lips let fall,

So make him once for all

A power that shall endure—

Zeus and Apollon pure,
A present help to men upon their way,

Of flocks a guardian sure,
Aureus and Notnios named of some to-day,
Of others Aristaios, as they pray.

1 Supra i. 81 ff. * Supra i. 70 ff., 654.

t Infra § 9 (g) Molpis.

u i. 76, 87, w/ra §9 (a) iii.

j Nonn. Dion. 5. 269 ff. Kal irvpt aeipidovTa KarciWcro' aortpa MaioTjs, | Kal Aids
Ma(oto dv&Sea fiiop&v avaipas | ai'/aari ravpflifi y\vK(pr]v iirtxevaro Xoi/Stji' | 7roiKi'\a
iTftJT * *nP<*lJ-'-a Sup* /ieMffo^s, I 7rX))o-as appa KUTreXXa p,e\iKpi)TOv kvkcuvos- | Ze<>s Si
<U6\i ^K°VITe Kal uW»t "la yepalpav | nip^w iXtSiKaKtov ai/i/iuv avrlvvoov atpn)v, \ Zdpiov
Oba"y ?e"T,°S ivaffT^w Trvperoio. \ dvin »0x (n)pu<ces 'ApiffTaloio 0v7)\Tjt | yatav dvaxpux-

b" .^T^°'tai Ac Aids aipai, \ otrvdre 7rouaX6£oTpus ai^erai okas iijru>/>7).
Cj _ iesych. s.v. Unaala- 6 tvSpoaos &ip, vypaala. In Paus. 1. 32. 2 L. C. Valckenaer

• PwM6s'U-Max^ou &ltK> but vwlMi|1| codd is right (supra i. 121, ii. 4, 897 n. 6).
land , Schirmer in Roscher Lex. Myth. i. 547 'ein Gott der Urbewohner Griechen-
Ga ' Pte"er—Robert Gr. Myth. i. 455 'eines Schutzgottes' etc., F. Hiller von
Sehr .i'"56" Pau'y—Wissowa Real-Etu. ii. 852 'die ehemalige Hedeutung dieses einer
Cla^ und urspriinglichen Entwicklungsstufe angehorenden Gottes,' Smith—Marindin
gott 'Ft P' IM a" ancient divinity' etc., Gruppe Gr. Myth. Ret. p. 1710 ' Wetter-
vi. .' j || Thramer in J. Hastings Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics Edinburgh 1913
L0nd4o 3 'an ancient Thessalian deity' etc., H. J. Rose A Handbook of Greek Mythology

8 p" '9J8 p. 144 'a rustic deity.'

>nd. Pytk. 9. j 12 ff. (quoted supra i. 372 n. 8).
 
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