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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 Thaulios 283

With regard to its original meaning nothing is known. Con-
jectures have been advanced by W. Tomaschek1, F. Hiller von
Gaertringen2, F. Bechtel3, and F. Solmsen4. But none of these is
convincing. I venture therefore to add to their number the sugges-
tion that Thmllios denotes 'god of the Dew,' being in fact a word
akin to the German Tan, the Dutch dauw, and the English dew .

1 W. Tomaschek in the Silzungsber. d. kais. Akad. d. Wiss. in Wien Phil.-hist. Classe
^94 cxxx Abh. ii. ss (from the root 'sturmen').

2 F. Hiller von Gaertringen in Hermes 19.. xlvi. .56 considers the possib.^of
connexion with 0dXXu, 6a\Us, Go-X^o, but rightly observes that the a, of 6a.zX.os,

w quite incompatible with the a: 5. of re6i\a: 68\{6u.

3 Id. ib. cites a suggestion of F. Bechtel: 'Nur als einen Einfall will es Bechtel geten
lessen, dass 6atfXW den Toter bedeute: 0av, zu combiniren mil germamschem dau im
gotischen daufis, ahd. tot, nhd. todt. Dann wiirde 6a*X«» dasselbe me fig*«.
*A»«j9N*N. sein, und Zeus G^Xtos der Gott, dem die Bou#4k« ge Hen .Sac hitch
dttrfte hiergegen nichts einzuwenden sein; das Verschwinden des Wortstammes .m
KgUchea Sprachgebrauche der Griechen ware ein Beweis fur das hohe Alter der rehg.osen
Sitte und Vorstellung ' ,, •

4 F. Solmsen 'Zeus Thaulios' in ffermes ,911 xlvi. 286-291 criticises Bechtel sview:
' So verfuhrerisch die Deutung erscheint, so erheben sich doch gegen sie lautl.che Bedenken
vongotischer Seite her. Neben dauj>s "tot" daufiu, "Tod" namlich stent hier dvwans
"sterblich." Dessen -iw- geht auf -eu- zuriick, also muss.-.das -an- von daufis daufius
Uteres fortsetzen, und damit lasst sich das -«v- von eriXat usw. schlechterd.ngs nich
vereinigen.' Solmsen further propounds a conjecture of his own: 'OouX- kann sich UUt
for Laut mit .8awX- decken, dem zweiten Bestandteil des lydischen, genauer lydisch-
Phrygischen Namens KorSotfXo*. Uber das eigentliche Wesen dieser Figur belehrt uns
^r bekannte Hipponaxvers'EpM*; ri^yx* V*g- «w*wA Mi,.oriarl M gWrfS

1 Bergk", 4 Diehl, 45 Knox). On this showing 6a*X«r would denote Throttle.
CWUrger'), eaOX.a 'the Throttling-festival' ('Wtlrgefest'), and QavUos the god served
with such rites. Sacrifice effected by, or at least accompanied with, strangulation.appears
,t0 have been an early institution: Solmsen adduces the bull-dragg.ng for Poseidon
"W.o, (//. 20. +03 f. cited supra 5o6 n. .), the bull-hanging for Athena at Il.on (sup,a
533 fig. 4o6), the slaughter of a bull for Poseidon at intervals of five and six ) ears
alternately, on the top of a pillar made of 'mountain-bronze' (? brass) and inscribed with
laws, by the natives of Atlantis (Plat. Critics 1.9 C-e), and the yearly hanging of a
fung kid for Aspalis Ameilete Hekaerge in the precinct of Artemis at Mehte in 1 hthia
(Ant. Lib. 13 after Nikandros irepo^va 2). Analogous cases are mentioned by
W. Robertson Smith Lectures on the Religion of the Semites* London 1927 p. 343 n. 3.
B«t, unfortunately for Solmsen's view, Thaulon is expressly said to have slain his ox with
an axe (infra § 9 (h) ii («)). ,
6 A. Fick Verglcichendes Worterbuch der Indogermanischen Sprachen* Gottrngen 1870
388, Prellwitz Etym. WorUrb. d. Gr. Sfr* p. 183, Boisacq Diet. itym. de la Langul
Gr- P- 342 f-

W it be objected that the Macedonian Ares GaOXos [supra p. 182) can hardly have been
a dew-god, we must remember that at Athens an early myth made Ares the husba"rt
Agraulos the dew-sister (Hellanik. frag. 69 (Frag. hist. Gr. i. 54 Muller) =/«,/?• 3» ^fjj
f • Hist. i. n9 Jacoby) ap. Souid. t.v.'Apeut ird7os = «/. mag. p. 139- '4 ff--B ^J."' v '
l- 444, 8ff., cp. Paus. .. 21. 4, Apollod. 3. .4. 2: see K. Tttmpel in pauly-W'^

ii. 650, Grnppe Gr. Myth. Rcl. pp. 32, .204 n. ., Farnell Cults f ^f£!Z
v- 402). It is by no means certain that Ares was ab origine only a war-god, ana
18 the sort of place in which we might expect to find traces of wider functions.
 
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