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Zeus : a study in ancient religion - Warburg Institute

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The double axes of Tenedos 665<br />

add<strong>in</strong>g that <strong>in</strong> Lemnos they were treated as gods and called<br />

the children of Hephaistos. This amaz<strong>in</strong>g statement—matched<br />

only by what we hear of the lobster <strong>in</strong> Seriphos^—carries us<br />

back to a primitive age, when the crab was not so much a gro-<br />

tesque as an awesome th<strong>in</strong>g. Nippers, after all, are no joke<br />

and the role played by the crab <strong>in</strong> <strong>religion</strong> 2, mythology ^ and<br />

M. Schmidt ad loc. says: ^ KapKivoi h.e. forcipes, Trvpdypai.' I. Voss cited Eustath. <strong>in</strong> Od.<br />

p. 1389, 26 ff. d)S 5^ KOL KapL8ai iarlv ov r/ Toiavrr) X^fts [sc. Kcifi/Jiopos) (rrjfjLalvei StjXoT<br />

'A^Tjfaios ^v rcjj Ka^fJiopoi '^a: rt yivos KapiSuiv vtto 'Pw/j.aiuiv ovtu) KaXov/jievov ' (cp. Athen.<br />

306 C d). Kal i'ffus evTevdiv oi xi'Sarot roiis Ka^oijpovs irap^

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