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Cook, Arthur B.
Zeus: a study in ancient religion (Band 3,2): Zeus god of the dark sky (earthquake, clouds, wind, dew, rain, meteorits) — Cambridge, 1940

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observes that in the tree-cutting scene on the coins of Aphrodisias the second man averts
his face owing to a sort of visual taboo, for which parallels are cited.

ii. 687 rock-carvings of the hafted axe. At the base of Ben Voirlich, not far from the
shore of Loch Lomond, a great rock called in Gaelic Clack nan Tairbh, 'The Rock of
the Bulls,' bears the rough outline of a hafted axe (A. D. Lacaille in Folk-Lore 1930 xli.
233 ff. pis. 4 and 5).

ii. 688 ff. n. o. M. C. Burkitt 'Rock Carvings in the Italian Alps' in Antiquity 1929
ixi. 155—164 with map and pis. 1—7 discusses the designs pock-marked on the red rock-
surfaces of Monte Bego and attributes them to seasonal pilgrimages of a neighbouring
agricultural population made during the Bronze Age at different dates but in all cases
prior to c. 300 a.d. (absence of Christian symbols). P. Reinecke in Germania i934xviii.
46—48 reports on two sandstone blocks in the Val Camonica and would date their
drawings to the pre-Roman Iron Age or more probably to the Bronze Age. P. Jacobsthal
'Celtic Rock-Carvings in Northern Italy and Yorkshire' in the Journ. Rom. Stud. 1938
xxviii. 65—69 accepts the contention of F. Altheim and E. Trautmann ' Nordische und
italische Felsbildkunst' in Die Welt ah Gesckichte 1937 iii. 83—113 that the largest of
all rock-carvings in the Val Camonica (fig. 3=Jacobsthal pi. 9, 1) represents the Celtic
stag-god Cernunnos with a small-scale worshipper. See further cid.' Neue Felsbilder aus
der Val Camonica: Die Sonne in Kult und Mythos' in Wbrter und Sachen N.F. 1938 i.
12—45 pis- 1—32-

ii. 690 Penelope's marriage-test. E. Westermarck The History of Human Marriage*
London 1921 ii. 490 notes that among the Mundas of Chota Nagpur the bridegroom
shoots an arrow through the loophole formed by the bride's uplifted arm, and suggests
that this was a magical means of securing the bride's safe delivery. I suspect that we
have here the ultimate explanation of the marriage-test proposed by Penelope.

ii. 692 ff. Tereus. M. Bieber 'Tereus' in the Ath. Mitth. 1925 1. 11 —18 pi. 2
publishes a sherd from Paestum, now at Dresden, which shows Tereus pursuing Prokne
and Philomela with a double axe in his hand (A. D. Trendall Paeslau Pottery London
1936 p. 127 no. 290 'Tereus (?)'). O. Schroeder 'I1P0KNH' in Hermes 1926 lxi. 423—
436 discusses the development of the myth.

ii. 699 "wine-skin" and "hatchet." ' Y.' in The Cambridge Revieiv 1926 xlvii. 268
draws attention to a better solution of this long-standing problem propounded by
S. Koujeas 'ASK02-1IBAEKTS' in Hermes 1906 xli. 478—480, who remarks that
at Abia in Lakonike words meaning 'wine-skin' and 'hatchet' are used in popular
speech to denote the contrast of light and heavy: thus tr\(xei 'aav aaicL ' he swims like
a wine-skin,' ir\exeL 'vav TatjKoijpc 'he swims like an axe.' The visitor bouncing the baby
says the tactful thing.

ii. 699 small bronze axes. F. Haverfield in Tke Victoria History of tke Counties of
England: Norfolk London s.a. i. 292 fig. 9 illustrates a tiny bronze axe found at Caister-
by-Norwich (Venta Icenorum).

ii. 699 n. 7. On Osthanes see now J. Bidez—F. Cumont Les Mages hellinisis: Zoroastre
Ostanes et Hystaspe d'apres la tradition grecque Paris 1938 i. 165—212, ii. 265—356.

ii. 703 n. 2 a hammer thrown to ratify the acquisition of property. K. Kiinstle
Ikonographie der Heiligen Freiburg im Breisgau 1926 p. 597 f. says of St Wolfgang
(Oct. 31): 'Auf den Wolfgangsbildern, die vom Kloster Mondsee ausgehen, tragt der
Heilige fast regelmassig ein Beil oder eine Axt als Attribut. Dies ist aus dem langen
Kampfe herausgewachsen, den das Kloster am den Besitz der Gegend am Abersee, die
man das " Wolfgangsland " nannte, gegen Salzburg und das Hochstift Regensburg fiihrte.
Die spatere Legende erzahlt namlich, Wolfgang habe, als er im Aberseeforst ein Ein-
siedlerleben fiihrte, mittelst des Werfens eines Beiles, das in dem spater nach ihm
benannten Orte niederfiel, den Platz gesucht, wo er eine Zelle und eine Kirche mit
eigenen Handen erbauen wollte. Durch diese Handlung hat er fiir sein Eigenkloster
Mondsee von dieser Gegend Besitz genommen. Der Beilwurf ist namlich ein altgerman-
ischer Rechtsbrauch; er diente zur Ermittlung des Verlaufs einer Grenze und bestimmte
die jeweilige Erstreckung des Rechtes auf Grund und Boden. Das Beil wurde so Sinn-
bild der Besitzergreifung.' Etc.

ii. 704 the spear of Zeus. L. Malten in the Jahrb. d. Deutsch. Arch. Inst. 1925 xl.
155 cp. Pind. Pyth. 1. 5 rbv aixno-rav Kcpaui>6i>.

ii. 707 n. 1. E. Kalinka in the Jahresh. d. oest. arch. Inst. 1933 xxviii Beiblatt
p. 69 f. no. 17 gives a facsimile of this inscription, and dates it in 68 a.d.

ii. 722 Zeus Hdrkios at Olympia. On the exact site of this statue see E. N. Gardiner
Olympia Its History Remains Oxford 1925 p. 274.
 
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