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)

Ritual of the Dipolieia 589

bull. The costume of the celebrant recalls that of the official who
slew a humped bull in an analogous rite at Stratonikeia1. And the
S1gn of the Crab, above the bull, denotes the hottest time of year2.
Whether the Boutypos should be identified with the priest of
eus Polietis, is a moot point3. On the one hand, according to
0rphyrios the first man that ever slew an ox was Diomos, a priest
°J Zeus Polieils, sacrificing at the Dipolieia4. On the other hand,
^outypos is beyond question a synonym of Bouphonos5, and Pausanias
scribes the Bouphonos as 'one of the priests6.' Is this description
suitable to so exalted a personage as the priest of Zeus Polieils,
* 0 in the second century B.C. sat in the forefront of the Athenian
atre next to the priest of Dionysos himself? On the whole
c°nclude that, whatever may have been the case in the Hellenistic
?e> originally and in good Hellenic days the Boutypos or Bouphonos
as °ne and the same with the priest of Zeus Polieils.
Still more puzzling is a gloss of Hesychios, which states that the
Performer of the Bouphonia was known as Botltes, the 'Ox-herd8.'
wj^s :t seems reasonable to suppose, this Bottles is to be identified
the Boutypos or Bouphonos, then—inasmuch as the Boutypoi
th 6 1 ^am'^ °f the clan Kerykes9—he cannot be connected with
e hero Boutes10, from whom the clan Eteoboutadai traced their
uescent \r

■ it, conversely, we start by assuming that this Boiltes was
pt|gg^ker °^ t^le Eteoboutadai, we must regard him as a priest, or
tjj s attendant, distinct from the Boutypos or Bouphonos; and in
can CaSe ^ not ^e eas^ to ^nc* a Bouphonic function that he
I thi^^r°^r'ate^' discharge11. The first horn of the dilemma is,

> the less precarious. A priest armed with a double axe or

. 'Sr^8fie- 38s.

^'PParch ' -ae"' '49 rje\ioio Bepelraral eZ<ri xAeuSoi with schol. ad loc. and

3 J T Arat' et'Eudox- phaen. 2. 1. 18.

Genealogie Berlin 1S89 p. 159 identifies the priest of Zeus
'J16 Rhein ^ol"t>bvos, but regards the Bovriiros as an underling. H. von Prott in

""guishes'th 1897 " '^entities tne Bol"'l''n" w'th the Bou0<W, but dis-

^fitlin e Boi,0o>'os from the priest of Zeus IloXiei/s. L. Deubner Aitische Fesie
^eus Polie P'.l(il f- s>des with von Prott : ' Der povrvwos ist nicht mit dem Priester des
2eichnung jy ldentisc», sondern ein Gehilfe von diesem. Er kann aber auch dit Be-
a<ls 'hrer <,] .'*ster ftihren...Dass povrviros und fiovtpbvos miteinander identisch sind, geht

4 Po'phd Funktion deutlich hervor-'

r<iduced to sT ^* 2' 10 (s"pra p. 577 n. 1, infra p. 593 ff.). Deubner op. cit. p. 162 is
Priester selbst5^'' 'A" StelIe des Pov™'*0'1 erscheint hier inkorrekter Weise der Zeus-

6 S*pra p' mos mit Namen, als der Tdter des Ochsen.'

' Supra n 5-5 f' 6 I,aus- I- 2+' 4 faXoC<" W riva t&v lepiuv /3ou0<W.

j? ° ^- Engei5'4' 8 Hesych. s.v. Bouttjs (cited supra p. 576 n. 1). 9 Supra p. 585.

,&*c Us mann in Roscher Lex. Myth. i. 8wf., K.Wernicke in Pauly—Wissowa

1 Mem, 1080 A".

esU d- Stadl A then p. 522 n. t.