The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 05 of 12)Frazer, James George
Religion
The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 05 of 12)
Frazer, James George
Magic; Mythology; Religion; Superstition
453 The suggestion is Mr. A. B. Cook’s. See his article, “The European
Sky-god,” _Classical Review_, xvii. (1903) p. 418, note 2.
454 J. T. Bent, in _Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society_, N.S.
xii. (1890) p. 448; _id_., in _Journal of Hellenic Studies_, xii.
(1891) pp. 214-216. For the inscription containing the names of the
priests see R. Heberdey und A. Wilhelm, _op. cit._ pp. 71-79; Ch.
Michel, _Recueil d’Inscriptions Grecques_, pp. 718 _sqq_., No. 878;
above, p. 145.
M116 The cave of the giant Typhon.
455 Mela, i. 76, ed. G. Parthey (Berlin, 1867). The cave of Typhon is
described by J. T. Bent, _ll.cc._
456 Aeschylus, _Prometheus Vinctus_, 351-372.
457 Pindar, _Pyth._ i. 30 _sqq._, who speaks of the giant as “bred in
the many-named Cilician cave.”
M117 Battle of Zeus and Typhon.
458 Apollodorus, _Bibliotheca_, i. 6. 3.
M118 Fossil bones of extinct animals give rise to stories of giants.
459 Pausanias, viii. 29. 1, with my notes. Pausanias mentions (viii. 32.
5) bones of superhuman size which were preserved at Megalopolis, and
which popular superstition identified as the bones of the giant
Hopladamus.
460 Pausanias, viii. 29. 1.
461 A. Holm, _Geschichte Siciliens im Alterthum_ (Leipsic, 1870-1874),
i. 57, 356.
462 (Sir) Edward B. Tylor, _Researches into the Early History of
Mankind_3 (London, 1878), p. 322, who adduces much more evidence of
the same sort.
M119 Chasm of Olbian Zeus at Kanytelideis.
463 J. T. Bent, “Explorations in Cilicia Tracheia,” _Proceedings of the
Royal Geographical Society_, N.S. xii. (1890) pp. 448 _sq._; _id._,
“A Journey in Cilicia Tracheia,” _Journal of Hellenic Studies_, xii.
(1891) pp. 208-210; R. Heberdey und A. Wilhelm, “Reisen in
Kilikien,” _Denkschriften der kaiserlichen Akademie der
Wissenschaften, Philosophisch-historische Classe_, xliv. (Vienna,
1896) No. vi. pp. 51-61.
M120 The deity of these great chasms was called Zeus by the Greeks, but
he was probably a god of fertility embodied in vegetation and water.
464 See above, pp. 26 _sq._
M121 Analogy of the Corycian and Olbian caverns to Ibreez and the vale of
the Adonis.
M122 Two gods at Olba, perhaps a father and a son, corresponding to the
Baal and Sandan of Tarsus.
M123 Goddesses less prominent than gods in Cilician religion.
M124 The goddess ’Atheh, partner of Baal at Tarsus, seems to have been a
form of Atargatis. The lion-goddess and the bull-god. In later times
the old goddess became the Fortune of the City.
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