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
482 B. V. Head, _Historia Numorum_ (Oxford, 1887), pp. 605 _sq._; G. F.
Hill, _Catalogue of the Greek Coins of Lycaonia, Isauria, and
Cilicia_, pp. cxvii. _sqq._, 95-98, plates xv. xvi. xl. 9; G.
Macdonald, _Catalogue of Greek Coins in the Hunterian Collection_,
ii. 536 _sq._, pl. lix. 11-14. The male and female figures appear on
separate coins. The attribution to Mallus of the coins with the
female figure and conical stone has been questioned by Messrs. J. P.
Six and G. F. Hill. I follow the view of Messrs. F. Imhoof-Blumer
and B. V. Head. [However, Mr. G. F. Hill writes to me that the
attribution of these coins to Mallus is no longer maintained by any
one. Imhoof-Blumer himself now conjecturally assigns them to
Aphrodisias in Cilicia, and Mr. Hill regards this conjecture as very
plausible. See F. Imhoof-Blumer, _Kleinasiatische Münzen_ (Vienna,
1901-1902), ii. 435 _sq._ In the uncertainty which still prevails on
the subject I have left the text unchanged. For my purpose it
matters little whether this Cilician goddess was worshipped at
Mallus or at Aphrodisias. _Note to Second Edition._]
483 See above, pp. 34 _sq._
484 Philo of Byblus, in _Fragmenta Historicorum Graecorum_, ed. C.
Müller, iii. 569. El is figured with three pairs of wings on coins
of Byblus. See G. Maspero, _Histoire Ancienne des Peuples de
l’Orient Classique_, ii. 174; M. J. Lagrange, _Études sur les
Religions Sémitiques_,2 p. 72.
485 Imhoof-Blumer, _s.v._ “Kronos,” in W. H. Roscher’s _Lexikon der
griech. und röm. Mythologie_, ii. 1572; G. F. Hill, _Catalogue of
Greek Coins of Lycaonia, Isauria, and Cilicia_, pp. cxxii. 99, pl.
xvii. 2.
486 G. F. Hill, _op. cit._ pp. cxxi. _sq._, 98, pl. xvii. 1.
487 Another native Cilician deity who masqueraded in Greek dress was
probably the Olybrian Zeus of Anazarba or Anazarbus, but of his true
nature and worship we know nothing. See W. Dittenberger, _Orientis
Graeci Inscriptiones Selectae_ (Leipsic, 1903-1905), ii. p. 267, No.
577; Stephanus Byzantius, _s.v._ Ἄδανα (where the MS. reading
Ολυμβρος was wrongly changed by Salmasius into Ὄλυμπος).
M126 Sarpedonian Artemis. The goddess Perasia at Hieropolis-Castabala.
The fire-walk in the worship of Perasia. Insensibility to pain
regarded as a mark of inspiration.
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