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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Makedonia and Dalmatia it is given to a boy or a young
unmarried man*. The name Dodola is unfortunately of unknown

"ts'to the significance of the rites here noticed, W.
held that the leaf-clad girl personifies vegetation, and his lead is
followed by Sir J G. Frazer* and Mr J. G. Lawson W. K. a.
Ralston6, however, regarded her as representing the earth, and so do
B. Schmidt' and G. F Abbott' The two lines of explanation «e
not widely divergent; indeed, they P^f^T^LltiJd
Greek lands the corn-mother seems to have been but a
form of the earth-mother'. Accepting Ralston's mterpre a on I
Aink it not improbable that the girl clad in greenery who s sup
Posed to catch a ring falling from the clouds- really pla> s thepart
of the Earth married to the Sky amid a mock shower of fruct^ng
Re that as it may, this at least is clear, that the drench n crt
the maiden with water is intended as a rain-charm, potent enough
according to the principles of imitative magic, and that the company

.. 1 B. Schmidt op. cit. i. 30 n. 3, W. R. S. Ralston* cit? p. "J ^
"op 59-3/'' °' F" Abb°" Macedonian F0lk'0re Cambndge ,903 P'

. 2 For guesses see J. S. Stallybrass in J. Grimm op. cit. ii. 594 °- •£®*T" J^nJ
and zhd represents either gd or dd; if this be the root dodo-laf«^^~A
W. R. S. Ralston of. cit? p. MO ('The name of Dodola is by some P^**" *«™{
from *», m to PDod^ b£ing looUed upon as a

kerning nature. Others connect it with Did-Lado, from the Lithuanian DuK gr
and Lado, the Slavonic Genius of the spring'). . , Nac]ir, d.

... I risk yet another suggestion-Hellenic, not Slavonic. F. Bechtel ^^J^J
GeselUC, d. W.ss Gottingen Phil-hist. Classe .890 ^f'"' Teo c

Work DUgrUcUsckm ZWoSeriin ,9». L 64 has established the fact that th Aeol c
for Demeter was Au-MdrW, with a clipped form Awfs (n«t "stored^by J. O. j
Hermann in /, />,„, , M fo, ^ W fr*' ^ of cod. M.). R. .^tcr ^^
"*« Gottingen ,88, i. 7S b*d already cited in this

fr'* and S O. Hoffmann/?/, Griechischen D.aleite Gottingen ,803
74 f- concludes that the North Achaeans in general originally worshiped ^^Jj
the title AWMd,„, On this showing Dodona was the town of fc**a red"P™s
.A£ cp. Sim(m)ias of Rhodes 300 B.C.) aP. Steph. Byz. #* *f^~*^
° PW«»»- 'Z^^^Kpo-ioao^p' ^e^aroAa.Sci.' The same reduplication m.ght,

conceive, account for the Serbian Dodo, Dodola, etc.
^ W. Mannhardt op. cit? i. 331.
Frazer Golden Bough*: The Magic Art i. 172. *<4 „ . n.mUriiae

19W p. »5.

? W. R. s. Ralston, op. at.* p. 228, m/ro p. 290 n. I.
„ Schmidt op. cit. i. 31.

9 p- F- Abbott Macedonian Folklore Cambridge 1903 p. 120.

M ^ L 396 f-
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