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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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sons Ekata, Dvita, and Trita. Their names simply betoken ' First,'
Second,' and ' Third.' But it certainly seems possible that Ekata
child of the fire-god, was Grecised into a torch-bearing Hekate.

Further proof that in the upper Kabul valley Zeus was but
another name for Indra may be had from the coinage of Eukratides
arid his successor Antialkidas. Certain square coppers of Apollo-
dotos i Soter, re-struck by Eukratides c. 165 B.C., show the king's
bust with a Greek legend on the obverse, a seated Zeus with a
Kharoshth! legend on the reverse (fig. 363)1. The latter describes

Fig. 363.

|j|e god as ' the divinity of the city of KapicI,' i.e. Kapisa2 a city of
e Paropanisadai visited in 630 A.D. by the Chinese pilgrim
^iuen-tsiang3:

0 'he south-west of the capital was the Pi-lo-sho-lo Mountain. This name was
n to the mountain from its presiding genius who had the form of an elephant
d was therefore called Pi-lo-sho-loK'

aiirT1^ k£ Seen t'iat f°rePart °f tne elephant in front of Zeus
0 ^e conical mountain behind him are alike appropriate to the
°f Kapisa, here figured as Zeus enthroned with wreath and

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ln(jra sPr,Mg the Aptya deities, Trita, Dvita, and Ekata. 2. They roamed about with
1. 0 ' eVCn aS nowadays a Brahman follows in the train of a king....' Eggeling id. p. 48
aP> 01°mment:s : 'Trita, the Aptya (i.e. probably "sprang from, or belonging to the
W0.jr*aters °^ tne atmosphere"), seems to have been a prominent figure of the early
'heVed' if" mytnol0gyi the prototype, in many respects, of Indra, the favourite god of
by the ? ymns- • Dvita (the second) and Ekata are no doubt later abstractions suggested
in the yy"?0'oSy of tne name Trita (the third), although the former, Dvita, occurs already
Sacred n C nymns.' See further Hymns of the Atharva-veda trs. M. Bloomfield {The

Strassbur°^'r "le East xlii) °xford l897 P- 521' A- A- Macdone11 Vedic Mythology
1921 n\\\ 1897 P-68f-. id. in J. Hastings Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics Edinburgh

dta*n fro" CaL c°'>" Greek and Scythic Kings p. 19 pi. 6, 8 (my fig. 363 is

ltl The cT, * ■ CaSt °f an uncatal°gued specimen in the British Museum), E. J. Rapson
^^'AEny^ Hhtory offndia Cambridge 1922 i. 555 f., 560, 590 pi. 7, 36- Obv.
2 A. tj METAAoY EYKPATIAoY. Rev. Kaviciye nagara devata.
" J. T=ur?nann in pauly—Wissowa Real-Enc. x. i8o8f.

Onthe'c" °" Yua" ChwanS^ Travels in India 629—64.5 A.D. London 1904
e Sanskrit pilii-, 'elephant,' see Schrader Reallex? i. 245a-

L- in.

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Xiil 8+ia—s? bSU 'n J' Hastings Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics Edinburgh 1921

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