Folklore; Manners and customs; Mythology; Religion
{178} M. Schmidt, Volksleben der Neugriechen, finds comparatively few
traces of the worship of Zeus, and these mainly in proverbial
expressions.
{183} Preller, Ausgewahlte Aufsatze, p. 154.
{184a} Tylor, Prim. Cult., ii. 156. Pinkerton, vii. 357.
{184b} Universities Mission to Central Africa, p. 217. Prim. Cult,, ii.
156, 157.
{186} Quoted in 'Jacob's Rod': London, n.d., a translation of La Verge
de Jacob, Lyon, 1693.
{190} Lettres sur la Baguette, pp. 106-112.
{200} Turner's Samoa, pp, 77, 119.
{201} Cox, Mythol. of Aryan Races, passim.
{202a} See examples in 'A Far-travelled Tale,' 'Cupid and Psyche,' and
'The Myth of Cronus.'
{202b} Trubner, 1881.
{203a} Hahn, p. 23.
{203b} Ibid., p. 45.
{204} Expedition, i. 166.
{205} Herodotus, ii.
{209} See Fetichism and the Infinite.
{211} Sacred Books of the East, xii. 130, 131,
{218} Lectures on Language. Second series, p. 41.
{222} A defence of the evidence for our knowledge of savage faiths,
practices, and ideas will be found in Primitive Culture, i. 9-11.
{223} A third reference to Pausanias I have been unable to verify. There
are several references to Greek fetich-stones in Theophrastus's account
of the Superstitious Man. A number of Greek sacred stones named by
Pausanias may be worth noticing. In Boeotia (ix. 16), the people
believed that Alcmene, mother of Heracles, was changed into a stone. The
Thespians worshipped, under the name of Eros, an unwrought stone,
[Greek], 'their most ancient sacred object' (ix. 27). The people of
Orchomenos 'paid extreme regard to certain stones,' said to have fallen
from heaven, 'or to certain figures made of stone that descended from the
sky' (ix. 38). Near Chaeronea, Rhea was said to have deceived Cronus, by
offering him, in place of Zeus, a stone wrapped in swaddling bands. This
stone, which Cronus vomited forth after having swallowed it, was seen by
Pausanias at Delphi (ix. 41). By the roadside, near the city of the
Panopeans, lay the stones out of which Prometheus made men (x. 4). The
stone swallowed in place of Zeus by his father lay at the exit from the
Delphian temple, and was anointed (compare the action of Jacob, Gen.
xxviii. 18) with oil every day. The Phocians worshipped thirty squared
stones, each named after a god (vii. xxii.). '_Among all the Greeks rude
stones were worshipped before the images of the gods_.' Among the
Troezenians a sacred stone lay in front of the temple, whereon the
Troezenian elders sat, and purified Orestes from the murder of his
mother. In Attica there was a conical stone worshipped as Apollo (i.
xliv.). Near Argos was a stone called Zeus Cappotas, on which Orestes
was said to have sat down, and so recovered peace of mind. Such are
examples of the sacred stones, the oldest worshipful objects, of Greece.
{226} See essays on 'Apollo and the Mouse' and 'The Early History of the
Family.'
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