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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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ld. Cerberus, The Dog of Hades Chicago 1905 pp. 1—41, id. in J. Hastings Encyclopedia
°f Religion and Ethics Edinburgh 1910 iii. 3i6a—318s. This eminent philologist revived
an 'dea originally put forward by F. Wilford in Asiatic Researches London 1799 iii. 408 f.
( Yama, the regent of hell, has two dogs, according to the Purdnas, one of them, named
Cerbura and Saisala, or varied; the other Syama, or black; the first of whom is also
called Tnsiras, or with three heads, and has the additional epithets of Calvidsha, Chitra,
and Cirniira, all signifying stained, or spotted:... the cerbura of the Hindus is indubitably
i e Cerberus of the Greeks') and later supported by numerous scholars including

; Kuhn (in the Zeitschrift fiir deutsches Alterthum 1848 vi. 125 ff. (equating Sdrameyas
*™ Eftueias, Epcujs) and ' Namen der milchstrasse und des hdllenhunds' in the Zeitschrift

r vergleichende Sprachforschung 1853 ii. 31 r ff. (accepting A. Weber's cydma and cabala,
t&vara, karvara = nepptpos)), F. Max Midler (in the Transactions of the Philological Society
J4 April 1848 (Kerberos=sarvari 'night'), id. in the Zeitschrift fiir vergleichende
frachforschung 1856 v. 149 ff., id. Chips from a German Workshop0- London 1868 ii.

5 ff., id. The Science of Language London 1891 ii. 595 ('Kerberos and Orthros'), id.

"ntributions to the Science of Mythology London 1897 ii. 627 ff. ('Kerberos')), A. Weber

"dische Stndien Berlin 1853 ii. 295 ff. (cydma 'scheckig' and cabala 'Schwartz,' later
ancT^' 8'°SSed karbura = KtpPepos), id. The History of Indian Literature trans. J. Mann
j _J/ Zachariae London 1878 p. 35 (Cabala = Kipf}epos), id. in the Sitzungsber. d. Akad.

• mst. Berlin 1895 p. 848 f. (cabala = Kep^pos)), M. Breal (Hercnle et Cacus Paris 1863

* 22 f- (accepting A. Kuhn's dog Sdrameya = the god 'Ep/xetas, "Epp.rjs and A. Weber's
rvara—K^p/36p0s)). Gruppe Cult. Myth, orient. Rel.i. 114 summarises their case thus.

rece ^ra^er interpolated into the earliest collection of Veda and in several of the more
(j^6"' ^edic poems (see especially Rig- Veda 10. 14. 10—12) Yama is invoked to protect
nost •] eas from the two spotted four-eyed dogs of Saramd, watchers that with wide
jn ^ s and ravening mouths roam the world as dark messengers of death. These dogs
'the V^**" ^e<*a nave no names, but in later Indian writings are called respectively cydma
Pas 1 an<^ (abala 'the Motley'—epithets presumably drawn from the aforesaid
karvi^ °^ ^Cl^a- The dictionary of Amara [Amarasimha Amarakosha~\ gives also

form *tar^"'ra> karvara as meaning 'dappled,'and this according to Kuhn was the
r^th m which cabala arose. Karvura, Karbura is to be compared with Ktypepos. See
darkn ^7'"'ams A Sanskrit-English Dictionary Oxford 1872 p. 995c ('sdrvara...

conin £Sf~~'-c^ Probably Gr. Ktppepos]'), J. van den Gheyn Cerbere. Etude de mythologie
p. !^ree BruxeHes 1883, E. W. Hopkins The Religions of India Boston etc. 1895
der '"Bi*-3 C^PPtpn { = Cabdla) = Cdrvara'), Gruppe Gr. Myth. Rel. p. 408 ('Kerberos,
(rP"cap eiC'le' CP' Hesych. s.v. xepflepof kIpSwos. rdprapos. ibxpos. Kal kvuv fiiyas §5ou
p. 45q'>^1>'0!^' ^0UDt.s are expressed by H. Oldenberg La religion du Veda Paris 1903
p. ,y ' 3' Roh.de Psyche3 i. 306 n. o, A. A. Macdonell Vedic Mythology Strassburg 1897
(' Jcdenfali ' ' ^°S^ale 'n 'ne Class. Rev. 1905 xix. 412, Schrader Reallex? ii. 561
f^rf/a- tn S. n s'ch a'le sprachlichen Gleichungen wie griech. K^p/9epos = scrt. cdrvara-,
^ame • lnarne eines indischen Totenhunds), griech. Taprapos = scrt. taldtala- (spater
'"dischenT bestimmten Holle), griech. '%«ias=scrt. sdrameyd- (von den Hunden der
auf das B °tenwelt gesagt), griech. M/xws = scrt. mdnu- u.a., von denen man frtiher
^eschln eSt£ derartiger und zwar schon sehr ausgebildeter idg. Toten- und Hollenreiche

TjllcSeSret".hat' a's hinfallig erwiesen').
c°nclusion 'ntles aDour|d ; but on the whole I incline to accept as probable the following
'Black' US, Tlle two hell-hounds of Yama, at first nameless, then called Cydma
and Lay " ^al'ala 'Motley' (cp. cdrvara 'dappled, dark '), came to be viewed as Night
Sciet,ce o/eiS?ectively' and even as Moon and Sun (F. Max Miiller Contributions to the
ix^y itt Ath°!ogy London '897 ii. 628 f. 'Thus in the Kathaka-samhita xvn, 14, it is
We read • <% "lat the two doSs °f Yama were day and night. And in the Kath.-brahmana
•hese two d ala' the sPeckled, is the day, Syama, the datk, is the night."... Sometimes
In Ath..Ved°e!; rePresent not only day and night, but even sun and moon....Thus we read
*e desire toV' 8o:~"He (the sun) flies through the air, looking down upon all beings,
homage with havis to thee (who art) the majesty of the heavenly dog."...
 
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