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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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The relation of rain to Zeus 321

But, though rain was always referred to Zeus1, its exact relation-
ship to him was variously conceived.

Cloud-collector,' so that vecj>e\-nyepe'Ta Zeis in a sense was the mountain—just as the
Mexican rain-god Tlaloc was also Mt Popocatepetl. The Mysian flute-player Olympos
[P- Weizsacker in Roscher Lex. Myth. Hi. 860 ff.] whistled for the wind. A Cretan
°'ympos was 'teacher' of Zeus [Ptol. Hephaist. ap. Phot. b\bl. p. 147b 38f. Bekker] in
c°ntrol of the rain-power. On this showing t& 'OXvuiria would be ceremonies of cloud-
Sathering), Mat/uiKrqt (not 'Raging' [Plout. de cohib. ira 9 5(6 <cal twv dewv t'ov (jaaiKta
*L^lXL<>v, 'A6t]vat0L be TilaL/a&ktt]i>, oifiai, KaXovaf rb be KokaariKov e'pivvwbes Kai baipLOPLKbv,
°j ^e<°" be oibe 'OXifiiriov, Harpokr. s.v. tiainaKT-qptuv■ ...£>vbp.aoTai be dirb Aids Mai/itd/crou.
* aiMa/n->7s b' eariv 6 evBovmwb-qs Kai rapaKTiKbs, (is tfrrjai A.vaip.axibr\% (Av<H/u£xi)S cod. Ven.)
,\^jSImachos of Alexandreia frag. 22 (Frag. hist. Gr. iii. 341 Miiller)) ev ti} Trepl tuv
Vvf]cri p.rjv(ov- apxrjv be \a[ifiavov~o$ tov xet/iuifos ToOrcp fj.y]vi 6 drip rapdrreTai Kai
^"■a/3o\?ji/ i'o-^ei = Souid. s.v. Mai/iaKTTjpiiic. Aliter Phot. lex. s.v. Mat/ua/cnjpuiv•...

dirb rijs /xai/j-d^eas rrjs vepl tt)V apvwe\ov p.aip.d£avTes yap, 8 iariv bpur)aavTes,
^P^yr)aav aixve\ov Kai otvov iiroiriaav. H. W. Stoll in Roscher Lex. Myth. ii. 1242 f. notes
a We 'Raging' god might be appeased (Hesych. Mai/ud)ct?js- MeiX(x«>s, KaB&paios) and

^ Corp. inscr. Att. iii. 1 no. 77, 12 ff. cited supra i. 176 n. 2], but 'Giving Increase.'
g r°ot *tna%- meant 'enlargement' (taaKpbs), 'increase,' 'benefit,' 'blessing' (uaKapes
et°'~" °fTVPes eiwv, cp. made esto). The reduplication is of a common type (baibaWu
'flak ^e-US ^<w/w'*n7* was probably developed from human */iaifiaKTr)pes, whose rain-
Soes r"£S */xai>J,aKT*IPLa gave their name to the month NaifiaKTripii!»>. With this *tnak-
■j'jle ^"-PP-o-koL for *tpapa-fiaK-oi, 'promoters of bearing (or produce),' cp. <bep<re<pbveia.
§ .J ^'form *magh is found in nqxayt) [Zeus M^xavciis: supra ii. 1144 n. 2, «'«/Va
hunc Maius the month of increase, Iupiter Mains [Macrob. 5s/. [. 12. 17 sunt qui
quo 11161156111 ad nostros fastos a Tusculanis transisse commemorent, apud quos nunc
Seg j. e Vocatur deus Maius qui est Iuppiter, a magnitudine scilicet ac maiestate dictus.
\suprar^.Cr ^'n'i 'n Pauly—Wissowa Real-Enc. xiv. 613 f.], etc.), 4>aXaKp6s (Zeus 4>a\aKp6s
fru;t u' ^75 n. 2, 1226] or rather ^dXcupos was god 'of the Swelling Tips' on plants,
<t>a.\. t*fi/' oa'cs» and beeches. The compound <pa\- +aKpos has for its first element the
tq jjj' **^/0 of <pd\7)s, 0aXX6s (the 'growth-making,' a magic instrument), etc., as
['ElPMe"356 °^ mes $a\av0ris [Corp. inscr. Att. ii. 3 no. 1606 Av<riK\r)s NavxMovt |
from *a^t","e< dvidr)Kev, where however the god's epithet may be $a\avdebs, an ethnic
makes th lantnon in Arkadia: see O. Hofer in Roscher Lex. Myth. iii. 2237], who
'^P'^uXX e."ower or bloom of things to grow, cp. Hesych. 'EpupoWiov (A. Meineke cj.
n. j A-rrbWuva Kai tov 'Ep/irj), Aa<pwmos (If this title of Zeus [supra ii. 899

nien to ? n' l} 'laC^ anytmn2 to do with \a<pvo-fftu>, 'to devour,' it meant 'who enables
ContendL'cjr^e' 'wno 80rfies himself'J but the connexion is somewhat doubtful). It is
attributeL of 7° l'lat ^''"7 ''ater ^(iK1> tnis is merely a Byzantine mis-spelling]), the
'bears' for s' meant 'Hearing' or 'Winning'—originally what the season 'brings' or
ak'n to irtt^' Wnat ^ou w'n' or 'carry off' in the way of produce,—being thus in form
reduce(j e"'c" [Boisacq Diet, e'tym. de la Langue Cr. p. 251 notes that the root etiek- had

aild'n sen™8 a"d "^'* cp' Walde Lat- etym- Wi>rtcrb:l V- 5°6f- *•*>• 'nanciscor']

prof. C,°m,parable with Fors, Fortuna (Jen) [supra i. 272].
etymolo'giesUC <er s readinS of Greek religion is simple and so far attractive. But the
P'obable ( ° v ne rel'es vary in value from the certain (e.g. "Ofifipios) or highly

and 1 doubt4' °S) t0 the 11'ghly improbable (e.g. 6>i<pa\6s) or impossible (e.g. "OXu/xiros),
materials *1 er any Enable position can be constructed out of such miscellaneous

.t1 CeTai^-^.Ur'. T™; ^iled s"Pr" ''• ' n. 6), Hdt. 2. 13 TrvBbnevoi. yap (sc. ol AlybwTioi)
J^fllWl ipeuo-et*^ E^''0"'< °* TOTanoiai ipSerai Kara vcp V otperlpr], l<p*aav
WS' ei P-V e6(\ ■ K°T* (^w^os ^eyd\rjt KaKui Ttewqaew. rb bt liros toOto eWXet Xtyeiv

(Jen/ 0 8ebi dXX' oi'XA«fJ biaxpaaBai, \ip.ip oi "EXXijves aiped-qaovrai-

c- III.

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