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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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Rain-magic in ancient Greece 301

Recourant aux textes, nous y trouvons une trace certaine non seulement du culte, mais
de ''adoration et de l'exaltation (au sens chretien) de l'epi de ble.'

(3) Elsewhere Reinach treats the corn-ear as the offspring of a priest and a priestess,
representing Zeus and Demeter, whose union ensured the fertility of the soil by means
°f sympathetic magic (S. Reinach in the Rev. Et. Gr. 1906 xix. 344 'Cet epi que montre
' hjerophante represente, a mon avis, le produit du manage du pretre et de la pretresse
constitue un des actes mystiques les plus importants du rituel; le pretre et la pretresse,
ans cet episode, figurent le dieu celeste et la deesse chthonienne—en langage mytho-
logique, Zeus et Demeter—dont 1 'union assure la fecondite des champs'). A very similar
a«ount of the rite is given by Harrison Proleg. Gk. Rel? p. 548 ft". and Fr azer Golden
^oug/i'J: The ^jagjc ^rt |jg (f#j w[,0 further equate the corn with the child Brimos.
°w the union of Zeus and Demeter, impersonated by the hierophant and the priestess,
certainly attested by several late authorities (Tertull. ad nat. 2. 7 cur rapitur sacerdos
reris, si non tale Ceres passa est? (J. Topffer Attische Genealogie Berlin 1889 p. 94 n. 4
s 'hat here Demeter is not to be distinguished from her daughter), Clem. Al. protr.
• *5' 1 ff. p. I3l i ff_ Stahlin (cited supra i. 392 n. 5), Arnob. adv. nat. 5. 20 (., 37 (cited
*pra i. n Q^ Asterios bishop of Amaseia (dated c. 330—c. 410 a.d. by W. Christ
ese/nc/ite der gricchischen Litterature Miinchen 1924 ii. 2. 1429) horn. 10 encomium in
s^nctos martyres (xl. 324 b Migne) ov Ke(pd\aiop rijs ffijs OprjcrKeias ra iv 'EXei/0-iei /ivo-T-qpia
*? "%os Attikos Kai ^'EXXas iraffa (TVPaipei, Xva TeXeay pM.Taibnjra; ovk eKei to KaTa(3d<riop
al V">T(t'''"' Kai ai cre/j.pal tov lepo<pdvTov wpbs tt)p iepeiav avPTVX'-ai p.bvou Trpbs p,bpt]v; ov%
fou ^"J"a0es afievvvpTai, Kai 6 7roXi)s Kai avapW[iriTOS 5%ios ttjp <soni\plav aVTWP elvai void-
j Ja (v TV (tkotui irapa tup Svo irpaTTO/xepa; schol. Plat. Gorg. 497 c p. 913 a 37 ff.
ep ^fT° ^ Ta^Ta Kai Kai K6py, 6'ri ravriju p.ep XWo&twv a/>7rd£eie, At]oI de puyeLy Zevs-

""oXXa ixlv ewp&TTeTO alaxpa, eXeyero 5e k.t.\., Psellos riva wepl 5ai/j.bvuv So^d^ovcrip

PCS;

was

a

P* 39f« (cited supra ii. 132 n. 2)). It is probable that in early days this union
:j ■ rea^ one, the hierophant having actual intercourse with the priestess, but that later
d;s-eCame.merety symbolic, the hierophant using an application of hemlock as an antaphro-
with h ^P ref' haeres. 5. 8 p. 164 Duncker—Schneidewin cited supra p. 300 n. o (i),
cere emarks of Frazer Golden Bough3: The Magic Art ii. 139 n. 1). But though the
to b m marnage of the hierophant (Zeus) with the priestess (Demeter) has some claim
p, • j reSarded as fact, yet it must be admitted that not one of the ancient writers called in
evidence rip ~\

that ' cnbes the offspring of this marriage as an ear of corn. At most we can say

Phatt- Sabazian myth Zeus became by Deo BrimS or Demeter the parent of Phere-
ext a or K°re {supra i. 392 ff.). It might also be maintained—the hypothesis is not
arran ed ^ ^ore was at Fleusis represented by a bunch of wheat-ears, possibly

1 \ r 'n ^orm of a corn-daughter or harvest-maiden (supra i. 397 n. 4 pi. xxviii).
Studie M' Cornford 'The 'ATTAPXAI and the Eleusinian Mysteries' in Essays and
the Teis tSente^to W'Hiam Ridgeway Cambridge 1913 pp. 153—166 likewise identifies
The ^J1"'"^"0" arixw with Kore. His argument may be briefly resumed as follows.
^castraT*^ °r ' ^rst"^ru'ts>' sent by the Greek states to Eleusis, were in accordance with
t88o iv CUStom stored in underground granaries (P. Foucart in the Bull. Corr. Hell.

R'cueU& ff" 'ine 10 ff" P1- '5 = CorP- inscr- AtL iv- 2 no- 27*' 10 ffl = Michel
= J. v p "scr- Sr- no. 71, IO ff. = Roberts—Gardner Gk. Epigr. ii. 22 ff. no. 9, 10 ff.

inscr. Qr j anC^ Ziehen Leges Graecorum sacrae ii no. 4, 10 ff. = Dittenberger Syll.

+23/2 is c' f10' 10 Inscr. Gr. ed. min. i no. 76, 10 ff. (an Athenian decree of c.

6o/fa Tojj ^ Unt at Eleusis) oiVoSo/iccrai 5t aipbi rpes 'E\ev<Tw\i Kara rd irdrpia fibiro b\v

Kai\pirbv .'>°'r0l0IS Ka' T°' dp\x\iT\(KTovL (lriTeSeiov evai dirb to dpyvplo to toiv BeoXv. t6[v

T6s xavuu' V 0Iie^°^e,/ hhv dp irapaXd^ocri irapa top &ep.dp[xov\ \ dirdpxeoSai de Kai

M^7«pa, Vhot\KaTa Taird^ ^uch 3 granary might be called peyapop (Hesych. s.v.

llap9cW(f) 0°i ^"W0"' Eustath. in Od. p. 1387, 17 ff.) or ippiap (h. Dem. 99

^a^XODOpP<^I1' ;Pa"S' 39' 1 $p£aP~'A*8u*1 Ka\ovp.epop, 1. 38. 6 $pe'ap...Ka\ovp.ePOP

PurPose

X°pop i 3y" *pp*ap... apui.ov KaAovfxepop, 1. 30. u <pptap...*.u.'™vt*.*rvr

se of th-P De'"' 5;2^' Cwnich' however, were wells for water. A.B.c].). The

into fertilisine CUSt0m was 'to Put these specimens of grain that was to be used for seed
g contact with the sacred store' (p. 163). In the autumn, at the Eleusinia,
 
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