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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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Akmon

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F. Munter1 thought it not impossible that the meteorites in
question might yet be identified.

But the philologists have more to tell us. R. Roth2 of Tubingen
in 1853 first drew attention to a group of related words, which may
be amplified as follows3 :

reek Akmon

4tlskrit dstnan-

Vestan asman-

ersian asman-

1 ersian asman
°Sdian >sm,n

1

sky*

thunderbolt (?)6

pestle6

anvil

stone

sky(?)'

stone missile, thunderbolt

hammer-stone

anvil

stone

sky

stone missile, thunderbolt







sky









sky









sky







Roth rightly inferred that there must have been a time when men
°f Indo-Europaean speech thought the sky to be made of stone8,

1 F. Mlinter Antiquarische Abhandlungen Kopenhagen 1816 p. 275 n. o.
R. Roth 'Akmon, der vater des Uranos' in the Zeitschriftfur vergleichende Sprach-
forschung 1853 ii. 44—46.

In arranging this table I have been helped by my friend Professor H. VV. Bailey,
whose own researches in the subject will shortly be published.
Hesych. s.v. an/iav ...obpavbs.
^ Hes. t/ieog. 722 ff. evvia yap vvKTas re Kai ■ff/j.ara x°^-Ke0S | oipavodev Kariiiv

0(k6.tv k' (so Thiersch for 8' codd.) <?s yalav lkolto- \ evvea 5' ai5 ptU'ras re Kai ijfiara
toX/>-eos Hnn^y 1 £K yai^s Kanihv deK&Trj k' (so Thiersch for 8' codd.) es taprapov Ikoi.
e passage belongs to the ' emblemata vetustissima,' which F. Jacoby in his ed. p. 87
tnbutes to rhapsodes of s. vii—vi1. Cp. F. Schwenn Die Theogonie des Hesiodos
, „eidelDerg '934 P- 17 n. 2. H. Stuart Jones in the new Liddell and Scott p. 51 says
a,KMwj\.,orig. Pr°b- meteoric s/o>ie, thunderbolt,' and illustrates that meaning by quoting
Keos &Kfiuiv obpavbdtv Karidv from this Hesiodic passage. An Iapygian parallel has
een considered supra ii. 30 f.
p g g^^0'1' °'K^ova' ahirpifiavov. Kvirpioi. Cp. the neolithic pounder discussed supra

C0jl Grassmann Wbrterbuch turn Rig-Veda Leipzig 1873 p. 139 recognises the
^°wing senses: 'agman (1) Fels... ; (2) der Stein als Werkzeug zum Schlagen, Ham-
ScT' ^ammer und Ambos und andere, urspriinglich aus Stein gemachte Werkzeuge des
st .miedes; (3) der Donnerkeil; (4) der bunte Edelstein...; (5) der Himmel, der als
Oxf CrneS <^ew°")e gedacht ist.' Sir M. Monier-Williams A Sanskrit-English Dictionary"
nan""' P' 114 sa>'s: 'Asman a stone, rock...any instrument made of stone (as a

JMer Sec.)...thunderbolt...the firmament.'
■En 1 ^' ^mnese identification of the heavens with jade (A. E. Crawley in J. Hastings
in s °t"c'lla »f Religion and Ethics Edinburgh 1915 viii. S9ib), the Mohammedan belief
and T^rl.'leavens made of emerald, white silver, large white pearls, ruby, red gold, jacinth,

shining light (G. F. Kunz The Curious Lore of Precious Stones Philadelphia & London
1 2fi\ 3+9'' the Jew'sn belief in 'a paved work of sapphire stone' (Ex. 24. 10, cp. Ezek.

°>< and the like. See also supra i. 357 n. 4.
 
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