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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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738 Significance of the birth of Athena

The ancients, like ourselves, found the idea entertaining—witness a
delightful parody of the Athena-myth on a pklyax-va.se at Ban
(fig. 535)\ Leda's egg has been set carefully in a basket to hatch.
But Zeus, who knows from experience what Hephaistos' double axe

Fig- 535-

Travancore, cut off the top-knot of the deceased (see Frazer, Burial Customs, P-
note).' But when Sir Arthur quotes (op. cit. p. 476) as a classical parallel Numa s * ^
to Iupiter in Ov. fast. 3. 341 'Summos, ait ille, capillos,' he is relying on a vvoi
variant. The better manuscripts read '"sumes" ait ille "capillos"'—a very differ
story (supra p. 433 n. o). ]ajllS

This releasing of the spirit from the head is an immemorial usage, which exp ^
many things from the trepanning of neolithic skulls (K. Sudhoff s.v. ' Trepanation
Ebert Reallex. xiii. 430—432 with bibliography) to 'The Holy-mawle' descnt>e
Aubrey, ' wch (they fancy) hung behind the Church dore, wch when the father
seaventie the Sonne might fetch, to knock his father in the head, as effoele, & of"0
use' (supra ii. 703 n. 2). . ^0

1 M. Bieber Die Denkmaler sum Theaterweseu im Altertum Berlin—Leipz'6 „
p. 145 no. no pi. 80, 1 ( = myfig. 535), Pfuhl Malerei u. Zeichnung d. Gr. i'> 59 ' ;
iii. 361 fig. 805. ^ be

A more brainless bit of bogus mythology based on the myth of Athena's birtn .
found in schol.(B.)T. //. 19. 126. When Zeus in anger seizes Ate KefiaKijs \urapoir
and flings her down from heaven to earth, the nitwit scholiast comments: ot t^"

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(II- '9-

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