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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 as an ox; Zeus Olbios

opiophagy1, not to mention a yet more primitive stage of sheer
cannibalism in which the local king or some human substitute was
klHed and eaten2, the ox being—as H. von Prott3 and B. Laum4
lrr>agined—a later surrogate for the man. Definite evidence of such
a gnm past js lacking5, but the legends concerning the cult of Zeus

2 Supra i. 659 ff. (' The Cretan Zeus and Bovine Omophagy').

^ Supra i. 651 ft". ('The Cretan Zeus and Human Omophagy').

t Supra p. 599 „. o (2). * lb.

^ . ' nrst sight it seems tempting to detect a faded trace of it in the story of Demophon,
'he l"^ant cn''d °f Keleos and Metaneira, whom Demeter ' hid by night like a brand in
lazing fire' (h. Dem. 239) and would have made immortal had not his mother by an
e'y shriek broken the spell (supra i. 211). This appears to have been an aetiological
Stad USEt' t0 exP'a'n an actual custom (J. Toepffer op. cit. p. 108 n. 3, Mommsen Feste d.

Athen p. 274, G. Knaack in Pauly—Wissowa Real-Enc. v. 149). At Eleusis a boy
as 4/1' °'50sen Dy 'ol: to expiate the sins of the people and propitiate the gods, was known
Tetfo ^ *crT^as (P°rph. de abst. 4. 5 ol Si inrkp rijs irbXeois dvovrcs rots Beats Kal Bepa-
Tes Q7reAfiX(Tro^To ras rwv ttoWuiv ap.aprlas. Sirep yap iv rots nvarripiots 6 &</>' cartas
Trp0a. "°S va?st <Ss>dcri iravTiiiv rSiv p.vovp.ivoiv airo/xeMaaerai rb Betov, aKpifiQs dpiiv rd
T6 Q - Ta^^,/a> tovto Kara ra tBvy\ Kal rds ttoXcls ol Upets bdvavrat dvrl irdvrojv Bvopres Kal
irp' ' '1T^OCIayop.^voL bid rrjs eu<Te(3das eis tt)v a<p&v Kr}5ep.ovtav, Bekker anecd. i. 204, 19 f.
is me^.as ^"vSijpa^ 6 ck roiv wpoKplTwv ' AB-qvalwv kXtjpv Xaxd'i' irats brj/xoala jxvqBels) and
in loned as such in a number of extant inscriptions, mostly found at.Eleusis itself or
4fa^near neighbourhood (Corp. inscr. Alt. ii. 3 no. 1355, 1 ff. ( = iv. 2 no. 1355, 1 ff. at
last 'a no"h of Eleusis) 4 fiovM) \ dtp' cartas | ixvyBttaav with olive wreath round the
r°und tvT %VOriJs' no- '388> 1 ff-Iv /3ouX]t/ [6] brjp.os \ p.v[ri6eta]av \ a<p' eor[ia]s with wreath
iy M« ,„e three wor^s> no. 1389, 1 ff. Avaiav 'Aprip-avos naiaviia | Bebnp.os Qeorlptov
^vpivot 0UTT,>S I Kat ®e°dbTV koiatBiov ^7 }/lvpwo6m)s Bvydrrip | Kai'OvrjaaKw Uporipiov £y
4f- t6„ ^t®vy°-TrIP I a(p' cartas purqBifTa \ ATjp^rpi Kal Kbpy dviBtjKav, ib. iii. I no. 809,
^]ria(s) ^|0(<?)«7-[a 'AS^aiox, k.t.X., no. 828, 1 ff. KXattfios Kai KXauSia |
^y^t)Kav "t""0,/ -f'X'jav6^ IIoXiyKpiroi', j rbv vlbv, p.vi\Bcvra | d(p' {arias ratv Be\atv
I ff. ( * ' lepetos KXai;5ias | Tei/toWas t^s TeiMojWou TapynTTtov 0i{yaTpbs\, no. 829,
ffT0[„j , r e Parian Plain) [tA> d0' e<r[rias] |

^(1)1.! ^TV" °® ^XoW or the like' na 83°' 1 ff- (on the Rarian Plain) [t6v &<p'
e<>K\[ijrt i mwt'''' I M(ap<co») Ai)p(^Xio^) MiXT(i)d5[^] | Mo/>ofl(i6)wo[i-] | [6 irajrty 'Aya-

•Ti ^IpiLw "°' 83'' ' f' ^•'fa' iul"'i[W,/7'a] f<^te[t], no. 908, 1 ff. Kara

^PWi6J^^)/r,?^a tre|m"07"dTuv 'A\peoTrayeiTwv \ rrjy a<p' (arias \ Aip. ilayvav \ rr\v Kal
^iT»{Ul) ° ywets I Aip. 'Eira<pp6\deiTos 'AaK\ij\iridSou UiTOevs | Kai Abp. Ma7»'a | iK
"Pafliii,; ' ^f°' 1 (at Atnens "n the church of the Panagia) YL\top.ip-qs Mavrlov
^'"fe pj"' *l^,?''di AcvkIou lleipaUus 0v(ydTrjp) | tauriii' Bvyaripa $t\rp-i!>, p-vv\-
^l^Mos }fe nas>] &tlWpt Kal KopB, no. 911, iff. [17] /SouXt; 17 j{ 'Ape/ou jrd[70i; Kai 6] |
pai K6PS ap/eTPaTV'' Mf"«°[i'] I [B]e/»earfJo« Bvyartpa, p.ur,euaav \ [&]</>' curias Arifn/rpi
. ^^usfl ' "•'•T-X-- no- 9'^, 1 ff- (at Athens) ^ ^oi/X^ | ['0]Ki>lai>(?) noXi/x V/"0"I

? P0"^ ^ ;/'^aT^pa' I Mw?9e«roi' dip' eo-Was, no. 913, 1 ff. (in the temple at Rhamnous)

8 "Var^«. 9 li'>e'0U 7rd70"^ I Kai ' /Sto^Xr) two i£aKO<Tl]\uit> Kai 6 [5?p;os.......2e]\KovrBav,

^°6X<ip I"^J-1 lMl<ru"o[s, pivr)6uoav d],[0'] e<rri[as], no. 915, I ff. 070^1 ri^X'!'- I 4 d7rii
e"l5(p)ou, -Q' ^"°w """o n«|pucXA>w Kai KiywVos, Kara 5^ 3IaKeo6'«s («V) a7rA 'AXe^-
p***T^p«1 nu"^'PaT'a"') I IloXuxapMir rr\v \ atj> ijrias 'lovvLav | Qenio-rbKktiav, | Tr)K
""ijfler^ • 9»o, 6ff. (on the Akropolis at Athens) 7; /SouXtj | Kai 6 Srj/ios | i<p' iarlo.% \

J">a^pa). ttT WrCath r0Und aU four

lines, which honour ib. 2 f. Tcprlav AcvkIov......|

c^l'ficatic>n anJ f .custom thus attested has hitherto been regarded as a ceremony of

^Parable w'n lnitiati°n (supra i. 211 n. 3). If we could be sure that it was originally
°"eged T„" ? ,"le Carthaginian sacrifice of children to Kronos by fire (supra i. 722) or

sacrifice of children to Moloch by fire (supra i. 723 n. 1, S. A. Cook

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