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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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The stone of Dousares 915

"Kore" or "Virgin," and her offspring Dousares, that is "Only-begotten of the
Lord1."

In the town of Elousa2 also the same thing takes place that night as happens
there in Petra and at Alexandreia3.'

1 The derivation of Aovadp-qi is disputed. The name is commonly interpreted as Dhil,
'Lord' ( = north Semitic Ba'al), of Shard, a place-name. This might be one of several
localities (J. Wellhausen Reste arabischen ffeidentums1 Berlin 1897 p. 51), but was
probably a mountain-range in Arabia (cp. Steph. Byz. Aovo-apr)- o-KorreXos Kal Kopvcpr)
vipi]\oT&TT] 'Apafiias. eipT/rcu bk drrb rod Aovadpov. debs be ovros rrapd "Apaiptv Kal
AaxapyvoU Tifj.uip.ev01. oi oiKovvTes Aovaaprjvol, ihs Aaxaprjvol)—the scriptural 'mount
Seir' (Smith Diet. Geogr. ii. 952). G. Dalman Petra und seine Felsheiligtiimer Leipzig
1908 i. 49 hazards a Sumerian etymology Di1-sar-ra =' Allbesieger.' In any case the
notion that Aovo-dpr/s meant p.ovoyevr)s rod Secnrorov is absurd.

2 Elousa (Halasa) was a town in Idumaea, 71 miles from Jerusalem (I. Benzinger
in Pauly—Wissowa Real-Enc. v. 2457). The local cult is mentioned incidentally by
Hieron. v. Hilarion. 25 (xxiii. 42 B—c Migne) vadens (sc. St Hilarion) in desertum Cades
ad unum de discipulis suis visendum, cum infinito agmine monachorum pervenit Elusam
eo forte die, quo anniversaria solemnitas omnem oppidi populum in templum Veneris
congregaverat. colunt autem illam ob Luciferum, cuius cultui Saracenorum natio dedita
est....quos ille blande humiliterque suscipiens, obsecrabat ut Deum magis quam lapides
colerent.' R. Eisler in the Archiv f. Rel. 1912 xv. 630 n. o comments ' ~ZapaKi\vol von
srk "Morgenstern" wie' Ayaprjvol von hagar "Stein." '

On the ancient Arabian worship of the Morning Star see also Io. Damask, de haeres.
!°i (xciv. 764 A—B Migne) ovrm p.ev odv (sc. oi "ZapaKrjvol) eibu\o/\aTpr)aavTes Kal rrpoo--
KvvrjaavTes Tip euo~<pbpw doTpcp Kal Trj 'Atppobirrj, rjv di} Kal Xa/3ap (v.I. Xa/3ep) Trj eavruiv
^ojvbpuao-av y~hti>o-o-ri, brrep 0-rjp.alvei p.eyd\r), Gutberlethus cap. i (e Catechesi Saracen-
orum : quoted by Lobeck Aglaophamus ii. 1227) dvadepaTiQ tovs rrpoo'KVvovvTas t<p
^ojo-<pbp(p t<ai Trj 'A<ppob'iTrj, rjv Kara Trjv 'Apdftwv y\Cbffaav Xd/3ap \eyovo~iv, brrep &rri
IJ-ty&Xri (parallels infra p. 917 n. 7), Bartholomaeus Edess. (s. ixA.D.) confut. Agaren.
P- 3°7 Le Moyne (civ. 1385 c Migne) 6v oi "Apapes boKip.d£eTe, <&v> to euiacpbpov
&vTpov, Ze/3cb 'A(ppo5lTT] (sic) Kpbvov Kal Xap-ap Xeyere. The cult is further discussed by
Robertson Smith Lectures on the Religion of the Semites3 London 1927 pp. 56 n. 3,
281 ff., T. Noldeke in J. Hastings Encyc/opcedia of Religion and Ethics Edinburgh 1908
l. 665b, Cp. g. A. Cook The Religion of Ancient Palestine in the light of Archaeology
London 1930 p. 218 n. 3.

Cp. Kosmas of Jerusalem (s. viii A.D.) commentarii in Sancti Gregorii Nazianzeni
Brniina 52 (xxxviii. 464 Migne) TavT-qv (sc. Christmas) t\yov lKira\ai Si tt)v r)p.ipav eopTr)v
EXXt)<j6s, ko.B' rjv eTe\ovvro Kara to peaoviKTiov, ev dbirois Tialv inreiaepxbpevoi, bdev
hibvres lKpai;ov ''H rrapde'vos 'irenev, atffei <pus.' Tavrrjv "Errupdvios 6 p.eyas tt}s Kvrrplwv

Pevs <t>yo-L Tr)v eoprr)v Kal ZappaKTivovs ayeiv Trj rrap avrwv txefiopevr) ' Aippobhri, rjv 5r]

aHapS, Trj auT&v rrpoaayopevovo-i. 7X017x77. Lobeck Aglaophamus ii. 1227 n. z quotes a
Slightly different version from T. Gaisford Catalogus sive notitia manuscriptorum qui a
£. D. Clarke eomparati in Bibliotheca Bodleiana adservantur Oxonii 1812 i. 43
Tavrrjv <cTjjV> eopTrjv "EW-qves r)yov errjo-lav &t7raXcu Kad' r]v Mx^V Xpurrds r)p.ipav av£l-
0wtoi< KaXouvres. ereXovvTO be Kara to pteaovuKTlov abvToii vireiaepxbp-evoi, bdev e^tbvTes

Kfia^ov wapdivos iTeKev ai3£ei <piis.' TavTrjv, ujs 'Emqrdvios ypdtpei, tt\v eopTrjv rjyov

K<d 'ZapaKr/vol rrd\ai ttjv rrap' avrois o-efiop-evr/v TipuivTes ' AippoblTriv, rjv br) Xa/3apa (sic
Without accent) T77 airwv Trpoaayopevovoi ykiiaar]. F. Boll in the Sitzungsber. d. Heidelb.
a<i. d. Wiss. Phil.-hist. Classe 1910 Abh. xvi. 16, 40 ff. publishes a calendar from

°wer Egypt drawn up c. 200 A.D. by the astrologer Antiochos, in which Dec. 25 is
parked as 'HXiou yev48\iov aG$ei (pQs. Nevertheless K. Holl in his note on Epiphan.
nichT"' ,laer"' 22, 11 ins'sts 'dass Epiphanius—ob mit Recht oder Unrecht—hier

c t den 25. Dez., sondern den 6. Januar meint.'

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