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)

The birth of Athena in art 679

by Thanr and Ethausva—the former fastening a bandage round his head, the latter
laying her hands on his head and shoulder—gives birth to an armed Menerva.. All the
goddesses more Elrusco (supra p. 665 n. o) are winged. On Thanr see C. Pauli in
Roscher Lex. Myth. v. 527—529. On Thalna, C. Pauli ib. v. 459—463, cp. 442,
E. Vetter in Glolta 1924 xiii. 146—148, Eva Fiesel in Pauly—Wissowa Real-Enc. v A.
1227 — 1230. On Ethausva, W. Deecke in Roscher Lex. Myth. i. 1390, E. Samter in
Pauly—Wissowa Real-Enc. vi. 717. It must be remembered that Strab. 226 says of

Fig. 490.

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3|) A third, now at Berlin (no. 2979) (E. Braun in the Ann. d. Inst. ..

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teenrV ***' AIyth- "'• 2933f-)> has Tinia sitting on a throne with lowered bolt and

his th m armour risi"g f'orn his head. Left and right of him, leaning on the back of
tUln °ne' are Thalna and Uni (luno)—both appropriate as birth-goddesses. These in
obvi0il'C . ^ed ^y two young warriors described as Lalan and Preale. La/an is an
P^a°/T Sl'P f°r Laran> ,ne Etruscan Ares (W. Deecke in Roscher Lex. Myth. ii. 1866 f.).
' occurs here only, but must be a deity akin to Mars (C. Pauli loc. at.). Finally, in