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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Index I

Ba'al Zaphon

Identified with Zeus Kdutos in Syria
and Egypt 1177
Babylonia

Cults: ' Breakers of Heaven and Earth'
483 'the fettered god' 483 484,
Ishum 889
Myth: tree of life and tree of the gate
of heaven 1136
Bacis, the bull of Hermonthis, bibliography

of 1082 See also Bakha, Bouehis
Baganda, kings of, have lion as totem 957o
Baitylos, s. of Ouranos by Ge 887 891
Bakclios

Cult: Halikarnassos 558
Epithet: 'QufSpitcbs 558 560(i
Function: rain 558
Etymology: 9533
Bakha, the bull of Hermonthis 9533 See
also Bacis, Bouehis

Baki(s)

Cult: Lydia 1082

Identified with Dionysos 1082

Baktriane, coins of 532 if. 540 871 f.

Balletys 6120 1194

Balor 933,

Barbara, St 4723

Baros See Embaros

Basile 662 (?)

Basile or Basileia

Cult: Athens 606(6)
Function: 'Queen' of Heaven, or of
Underworld (?) 60,-,((!)

Basileia as Athanasia (?) G0f,(3)as Athena (?)
606(4, as Basile (?) 60f,(C) as bride of
Pisthetairos 57 ff. as Hera \latrl\eia
(11 as an imaginarygoddessrecalling
the Basilissa and Hera 00f,(8) as
Kore (?) 006(T) as Meter (?) 670 as
Orphic Dike (?) 9504 as d. of
Ouranos by Titaia (Ge) and st. of
Uhea (Pandora), who brought up
the Titans, was called Megale Meter,
and became by her b. Hyperion the
m. of Helios and Selene (?) 606(,-,)
as personification of Royalty (?)
6O5U) as d. of Zeus (?) 60S(2>

Basques

Itites: corrida 1090 Toro de Fuego 1090
Bath See Aquae Sulis
Bathykles 220 f.
Baubo

Type: seated on pig 1119

Compared with analogous apotrdpaia
1119
Begoe (?) 434
Beisan See Beth-Shan
Bektashi order still worships Zeus on Mt

Tomori near Berat 1170 f.
Beliar 3323
Bellerophontes 413<>
Bellona

Cult: Rome 1142

Epithet: l'ulvinensis 1142

Priest: cistovhorus 1142

Belos

Genealogy: f. of Danaos 368
Function: sky-god 369j
Beltis (?) 1159

Benacus, Lake, floating island in 1014 f.
Bendis

Cults: Philippoi 1134 Thrace 189!
Identified with Artemis 189j 233i
Benedict, St 338!

Beni Hasan, mimetic dances from tomb at
993

Bes

Function: apotropaic 847]

Types: female 847i full-face 847i
musician 1001 pygmy with wrinkled
forehead and nose, broad face, and
hanging tongue 847j

Compared with Gorgon 847i
Bethel

Cult: stone of Jacob (Massebhah ?

meteorite??) 891 f.
Etymology: 891

Compared with Egyptian meteor-cults
(?) 884„

In relation to baltyloi or baitijlia 891

- two places so called 891

Beth-Shan

Cult: Antit 195o

-burial pithoi from 1950 tubular

stands from 1950
Billutschei 334!
Bithynia

Cults: Artemis 992 f. Zeus 1160
Rite: 6 K&XaOos Tijs 'Aprinioos 992 f.

-coins of 820

Blaute

Cult: Athens 177i
Boghaz-Keui, Hittite forms of Greeknames
in cuneiform texts from 1120
Hittite rock-carvings at 1097
Boidas 149 ff.
Boiotia

Cults : Artemis 990 Athena Boap^ia 608
Athena 'I-rwWa 820! 871 Athena
A077STIS 6O83 Dan 7363 Hera
llaat\eia Gli Poseidon 736a Zeus
BacnXeus Glj

-coins of 819 f.

Boiotos 1094

Bol, Palmyrene form of Bel 1159
Bononia in Bulgaria

Cult: Iupiter Optimus Maximus
Volichenus 1098
Bootes 491

Boreas 130 160 See also Borras
Boreios 129

Borras 335 See also Boreas
Borysthenes 655o (?)
Borysthenis 135 140
Bosporos

Cults: Twelve Gods 147 f. Zeus Ofyios
142 ff.

-' Praying Boy' on shore of 149 ff.

Bosporos Kimmerios 155 gold cicalas from
2530