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)

Zeus Ombrios

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the altars and sacrifices of Zeus Ombrios, Demeter Proerosia, and
Poseidon Phytdlmios1. Zeus Ombrios here heads the list of
agricultural deities : it was doubtless in that capacity that he was
worshipped.

Gods that sent rain, wherever they were recognised, were apt to
he identified with Zeus Ombrios. Examples may be drawn from
lihrygia) India, and Palestine.

Phrygia had a legend of the flood2, which has come down to us
111 two somewhat different versions. Zenobios, who taught at Rome
Ur>der Hadrian and published an epitome of the proverbs collected
'mos (s. i B.C.3) and Tarraios4, states that 'the tears of
Nannakos ' was a phrase used of ancient happenings or of persons
taking loud lamentati

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^r Nannakos was a king of Phrygia, as Hermogenes asserts in his Phrygia?i
that0r:ya' before the days of Deukalion. Having foreknowledge of the deluge
^ Was to be, he gathered all men into the sanctuaries and made supplication

tears. Herodes6 the iambic poet says
g "Though I should weep the tears of Nannakos7."'

t, ePhanos of Byzantion (s. v A.D.) in his account of Ikonion pursues
^ story further.

Vears^ &^ tnere was a certa'n Annakos, who lived for over three hundred
S' neighbours asked an oracle how long his life would last. The answer

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2 p 1"' scPt' saP- conviv. 15.

^Patti' ^es 0'''S'"es I'histoire d'apres la Bible Paris 1880 i. 440—442

later wj^ ^'/'0/os' Ikonion, Mt Baris, etc. attest a Phrygian tradition of the deluge fused
» ,a Judaeo-Christian account), T. Reinach Les monnaies juives Paris 1887 p. 71 f.
*ith Jew"'' Coins trans. M. Hill London 1903 pp. 61—63 pi. 11 (a Phrygian myth fused
l'll'stoir j tradit'on)> E- Babelon 'La tradition phrygienne du deluge' in the Revue de
^ut merel rel'Sions 1891 xxiii. 174—183 (the supposed Phrygian myth was not original,
^eWcij i^- a Jew'sn tradition brought to Apameia by Jewish settlers under the early
'■'tie 0f A nSs)> H. Usener Die Sintfluthsagen Bonn 1899 pp. 48—50 (already in the
^e Wal jj'^a anc' -Augustus Asia Minor was overrun by Jews, whose Noah displaced
^?ropos0f anna'<os or Dardanos), A. Reinach Noi Sangariou Paris 1913 pp. 1—95
^a"Nan ]\J "^'las'an epitaph N6tj | ~S,ayyapiov \ yvvri argues that a Phrygian water-power
'he In,,6 C' Was daughler of 'Nannakos-Annakos,' hero of the Phrygian flood.
)' Praze confused wilh 'Henoch-Noah,' the former became 'Noira, fille de

a<ldUcecl in / Fo,k-Lor<: in the Old Testament i. 155—157 ('I confess that the arguments
We'8ht, restin^1" °^ 3" a^orig'nal ^ood legend at Apamea appear to me to carry little

3 W pi . ralner on a series of doubtful combinations than on any solid evidence'),
^ouirl ^tschichte dergriechischen Litteratur* Miinchen 1920 ii. i. 432.

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Heronl' ^ *Pvt(a'frag. 7 (Frag. hist. Gr. iii. 524 Miiller).
ta! ^etlol)- 6 10 **** T* ^av''il<ov ^Xawrw with W. Headlam ad loc.
r. ^Xnttu, jt'.° S'V't4 NwKdirou (cod. B reads At6 Havvd/cov iirl tusv a<p6Spa vaXatuv
, ' *ai f9ij ai-^**0" raXmbr rai Apxaiov paaAta. ytviaBm $pvywi> iv HurivovvTi
aw3 f'"' ilr° N°'S KaTIWT'>ffaff<?<"• at] raura \tytiv ainom Ta Airb SayvAxov). Cp. Makar.
T4 a""<iKOV< 8. 4 s.v. to (tri SavvA/cov, Souid. s.vv. TsA.vvo.kos, to. Airb tiarr&kov,