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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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Markos Diakonos1, writing c. 420 A.D.2, tells how in 395 the
People of Gaza ascribed a two months' drought to the presence in
their midst of Saint Porphyrios. They therefore offered sacrifices
and prayers to Marnas, whom they took to be 'lord of showers' and
'dentified with Zeus3, or more particularly with Zeus Kretagenes*.
F°r a week they continued reciting hymns and resorting to a place
°utside their city called the place of prayer. But, when nothing
happened, they gave up the attempt to coerce their god and
returned to their usual avocations. The Christians then, men, women,
and children, to the number of 280 came together and besought
Saint Porphyrios to go out with them and pray for rain. He agreed
to do so, proclaimed a fast, and bade all keep a night-long vigil in
tne Holy Church. This they did, with thirty prayers and as many
genuflexions, not to mention choruses chanted and the lessons read.
At dawn they took the standard of the Cross and, the saint at their
^ead, proceeded with hymns to the Old Church, founded by Bishop
sklepas, on the west of the city, where again they offered the

and jye'an ^eus and tbe Cretan Artemis, connected in name in the same way as Zeus
l)ejn lone ! and that the name Marnas is probably Cretan in origin, its Syrian appearance
Prinf f°rtuitous-' Contrariwise Prof. S. A. Cook op. cit. p. 182 ff. argues that Mama,
tjjat v a Semitic name, was later etymologized to suit the Cretan Marnas. However,
jfpj ^ e 2°d was really of Cretan extraction seems clear, not only from the statements of
raf. ani°s {ancor. 106 (i. 209 Dindorf) koX MopcSs SovXoi 'Avrepiov tov Kp-qrbs irapa
n. jj ^'S'' ™wkos Diakonos (infra p. 553 n. 1), and Stephanos of Byzantion {supra i. 149
all fr' Ut also from otner mythological evidence (Gruppe Gr. Myth. Rel. p. 248 ff.) and above
Civii°m a maSS of archaeological data (see e.g. F. B. Welch 'The Influence of the Aegean
(ceramj"on on South Palestine' in the Ann. Brit. Sch. Ath. 1899—1900 vi. 117—124
p. 3785' ^' "Pb'erscn m the Jahrb. d. kais. dculsch. arch. Inst. 1908 xxiii Arch. Anz.
titles a a (ceramics), A. J. Evans Scripta Minoa Oxford 1909 i. 77—94 ('Cretan Philis-
""d Civ;/[he Phoem'cian Alphabet'), R. A. S. Macalister The Philistines: their History
and Eth'Zatl°'1 London 1913 PP- 106—113, id. in J. Hastings Encyclopedia of Religion
Cambrid'" Edinbllrg" 1917 ix. 84obfr., H. R. Hall in The Cambridge Ancient History
^Op,,86 1924 283—295, J. L. Myres Who were the Greeks? Berkeley, California

IP- 126—-131).

Mark Vy 1
at first from Por^hyrii ep'swp' Ga

zensis 19 ff. This remarkable biography, known
^°Hand ~p\ tlle ^atm rendering by Gentianus Hervetus in the Acta Sanctorum edd.
at V'enna ( rius "'• 643ff- 0*v. 1211 ff. Migne), was published in Greek, from a MS.
hist- Class ' Vindob- hist- Gr. 3), by M. Haupt in the Abh. d. berl. Akad. 1874 Phil.-

by the SociP ''' ff'' 3nd' wilh the help of a be,ter MS' at °xford <cod- Barocc- Gr- 238>>
further \ C^taUs Phi'ologae Bonnensis Sodales as a Teubner text (Lipsiae 1895). See
et gra>ii„ 'lat. De Marci Diaconivita Porphyrii episcopi Gazensis quaestiones hisloricae

:«•c^eS1^-mlae.,897 pp- -6i-

, " Mark. iy V" Pau'y—Wissowa Real-Enc. xiv. 1867.
j?"a *aWMei/ ' ^'P''- '9 Sk iriiure* p.r\ /3p<fxu" 0 Oebs t'ov Tap avroU -wpSnov
ft 0i Ti>! fislx" A<°"' tTl U Kai t6" S€iT(P°" 'AxAXomt, Trdxres iffltpOKTO. avvaxStfTes
eVo" 7dp ri» ma"la* d* t° Mopi-ttoK, ToWbs Bvaias Kai evXas IratovP toOtou tvtKtv ■
ib / af"'av ttfx-ov dvai rCiv 6/iBpwv, tov Si Mdwav MyOVW dfai rbv Ala.
■ °+ (quoted infra p. 553 „. ,).
 
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