Zeus : a study in ancient religion - Warburg Institute

The double axe and Zeus Labrdyndos 595
(fig. 498) containing a seated ^^%y of Zeus Strdtios (?). The left
arm is raised. The lower limbs are wrapped in a mantle. The upper
part of the body is bare and shows remains of breasts. Here too we
should infer that the Hellenic father-god had usurped the position of
the Anatolian mother-goddess, and that local prejudice had to be
Fig. 498.
satisfied by the strange expedient of giving him ' the breasts of her
consolations^' On occasion, no doubt, the old order triumphed over
the new, and the resultant deity—despite his beard—was regarded
as a goddess rather than a god. Thus at Zougo or Zogui, a village
Zeus Stratios de Mithridate ' in the Revue de Vhistoire des religions 1901 xliii. 47—57,
F. Cumont — E. Cumont Voyage d'exploration archeologiqiie dans le Pont et la Petite
ArmMie {Stiidia Pontica ii) Bruxelles 1906 pp. 171—184 (' Le temple de Zeus Stratios '),
E. Kuhnert in Roscher Lex. Myth. iv. 1545—1550.
1 Is. 66. II.
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