Zeus : a study in ancient religion - Warburg Institute

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Apollon and Artemis
On the whole, it seems probable that originally the Hyperboreoi
Beyond the Mountains,' but that later,
were so named as dwelling '
when the word bora had passed out of general use, surviving only in
the Macedonian Mount Bora and in Boreas the wind 'from the
Mountains,' they were popularly supposed to live 'at the back of the
North Wind.' The road to their far-distant country was conceived
was adopted by W. Mannhardt Antike Wald- mid Feldkulte Berlin 1877 p. 234 f. {ib?
f.), O. Crusius in Roscher Lex. Myth. i. 2830 f., Gruppe Gr. Myth.
Berlin 1905 p. 234
Rel. pp. 103, 107, 718 b, id. Myth. Lit. 1908 p. 520 f. But, even as restated by its later
adherents, it involves sundry serious improbabiliues—see Daebritz in Pauly—Wissowa
Real-Enc. ix. 260 f. :
' Die antike Volksetymologie habe, von orientalischen Vorstellungen
beeinflusst, den H. eine Bedeutung gegeben, die diese "Uberbringer der Festgeschenke"
nicht von Anfang an hatten ; jrepepies abzuleiten, bildet die Verschiedenheit des delischen und
delphischen Glaubens. P'reilich kann Trep^epeej wohl delphisch sein, Kretschmer Glotta
I 37. Gegen die Ahrenssche Etymologie vgl. auch Immisch Klaros 156. Treuber Gesch.
d. Lykier 1887, 78. Zielinski N. Jahrb. Ill 87.' Daebritz goes on to urge that the Macedonian
month 'TireplSeptTdLos (adopted into the Cretan calendar as Tn-ep/S^ptTos) was
rightly connected by O. Hoffmann Die Makedonen, ihre Sprache tmd ihr Volkstum
Gottingen 1906 p. 108 [after A. Fick in Orient und Occident 1864 ii. 720, who postulates
a Zeus vvep^ep^To.] with a Zeus virep^epiras, 'the surpasser,' — i)7r€p(^ep^rr7S (Uion. Hal.
ant. Rovi. 2. 34 cited supra p. in n. o) in the sense of VTrep