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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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Zeus Ombrios

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a genuine Phrygian flood-myth underlies the story of Priasos,
Which Nonnos1 relates as follows. When Zeus Hyetios flooded the
Plain of Phrygia with his showers and submerged both oak-trees
ar>d thorn-brakes, Priasos left his water-logged home and went
°ff to the land of Aonia (sc. Boiotia), avoiding the deadly rain
°f Zeus. But amid strangers he ever shed tears as he thought of

e Sangarios and longed for his familiar spring. At length Zeus
^ypatos quelled the flood and drove the waters back from the peaks
0 SipylOS) while Ennosigaios with his trident turned the whole
^rearn into the depths of the sea. Then Priasos hastened to quit

e soil of Boiotos and hied him back to his native land. His
^r°ng arm supported his aged father in the flood, and Zeus the

reat in return for his piety brought him in safety from a watery
§rave—Zeus whom men call Brombios. The meaningless title brings
UP with a jerk. It is taken by C. F. Graefe, H. Kochly, and

■ Ludwich from the manuscripts' Bronbios. But there can be little
^°ubt tha(- Count de Marcellus was right in restoring the appellative

eus Ombrios, ' the Showery.'
the T ^on2statestnat' according to'the historians'(Kleitarchos?)3,
div" • lans reverenced Zeus Ombrios, the river Ganges, and local
les- He is presumably fitting a Greek name to Indra, son of
Wat S' W'10 ^ou§nt Vftra, the demon of drought, and released the
^ ers pent up by him4.

cj- MapJ^71 ^ 7ro^'7 KaraBiinios r)ev \ lv$a ipX^Ses fiey&Xov irorafiov 'M.ap<rvov (J. Geffcken

1)8,

^Tbjp rfr 7rOTalJ-olo) Tr4(pVKav. | ripSe Ktfiwrbs Hfieivev iv bty-tpXoiai Kapfyois \ X-q^avruv
""Os- ^ a'' iraXiv ovpavbdi irpb \ de<nreo-l-q \ieydXoio Beov irdXiv la\e <pwvr\ j tolov

".^n, . ^"P^ay^ve mare dlxcue, j dapeaXeus Z^eXde auv vUai Kal re bdp.aprt [ Kal
°Cat'°n jj"7'7'1" Kai "^fare yaiav airacrav \ av£bp.evoi" k.t.X. The first hint of this

1"°n- 22 ^IVen by Sex. lulius Africanus (on whom see supra ii. 695 f.) ap. Synkell.

jj-S ^ b ^ ^' ^'n<^or0 V" <^ erdiv e^aKoalav 6 N(ie, ore b KaraKXvo-p.bs iyivero.

~° ^WP> 'O Kifiwrbs Ibpvd-tj eirl rd opt] 'Apapar, driva to~fxev ev Hapdla, TLvh be 4v
20 Bef'f "^^aS ^"a' <Pa<Tlv' etbov be rbv tottov eKdrepov k.t.X. =Kedren. hist. comp.
e^cuj/a£s „^er^ ^Tt T^ bpi)' Apapar tafiev ev Ilapdla rijs 'App.evlas elvai- rive's bi <pa<nv,
vgia CW^5 *Pu7fes. See further Sir W. M. Ramsay The Cities and Bishoprics of
Cn!f°rdl897i-.67o-672.

^0l> 20 Bek'-"^'15 e^"a' l^a<r"' e^01' ^ rov T°w°'1 eKdrepov k.t.X. = Kedren. hist. comp.
n "^e^cm,„~ Cer^ T" bp-q'Apapar tcrp-ev ev llapBla rr)s 'Appevlas elvai- rivis bi rpaaiv,
Ph^ia r
Sl]c ^onn, jjig

I* Cessiveiy " 522—544- Within this short passage we get the sky-god called
\ °*/W> l10'^ (S«), Vrnvb* (529). Zebs'Twaros (534), Zrfl iliyas (543). Bp6/ifim>

a3'"5ol Ka[ T^p,,iTai ^ Ka' Taura irapa twv avyypaQe'wv, on aifjovrai yh> rbvop.ppi.ov
Kle- ^° E- U jj a77'7" Trora/j.bv Kal robs iyxupiovs baiuovas.

St- XftX^-fraa- 6Van in The Cambridge History of India Cambridge 1922 i. 422- CP-
'■f.If'- ii. T'7 (Scrij><- hist. Alex. Mag. p. 81 Mtlller)=Kleitarch. frag. 20 {Frag.

Htli' Mythology <V1S The Religions of India Boston etc. 1895 p. 104, A. A. Macdonell
loSyl°fH an<i Eth,• 1Sss.l)urg '897 p. 58 ff., H. Jacobi in J. Hastings Encyclopedia of
11 Kaces vi)JR "burgh [9°9 »• 804, A. B. Keith Indian Mythology (The Mytho-
I a°ston ,9,7 p. I33 f. Supra p. 273 n. 3.

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