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Zeus : a study in ancient religion - Warburg Institute

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Papas and Attis 293<br />

sobriquet strictly comparable with our ' Papa'.' Indeed, the term<br />

Attis itself, as A. Fick proved <strong>in</strong> 1873^ was just a pet-name for<br />

' Father.' Now it is not a little remarkable that a }'outhful god,<br />

who stood to Kybcle <strong>in</strong> the same relation as Adonis to Aphrodite"*,<br />

should have been thus habitually saluted <strong>in</strong> a tone of affectionate<br />

familiarity as ' Daddy*.'<br />

The paradox ceases to be paradoxical, if<br />

^SacrtX^tot SKi/^at koX t(^ lIo

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