Zeus : a study in ancient religion - Warburg Institute

The deity of the double axe 549
too in his work Qn Crete told how the cave on Mount Ide called
Arkesion had come by its name. It had 'helped' {arkesai) the
Kouretes, when they fled from Kronos and concealed themselves
in its depths ^ Since the Kouretes in the rites of Zeus Idaios posed
as Zagreus^, the infant thunderer slain by the Titans^ it is probable
that originally one of the initiates was done to death and eaten by
the rest as a re-birth of the 'Minoan' sky-god*. The grim legend of
Kronos swallowing his own children finds at last an explanation
And here it is permissible to conjecture that the word Kronos,
whatever it meant to ' Minoan
'
ears, was understood by the Greeks
as 'Chopper*^'—a name appropriate, not only to the ^xe-bearer, but
to the axe that he bore. The distinctive Homeric epithet of Kronos
is ankylometes', which I would interpret as 'he of the crooked blade*'
^ Xeniony9