Cook, Arthur Bernard, 1868-1952 · Cambridge [Eng.] The University Press · leaf 932
erbolt from Zeus at the request of Poseidon^ Hence Petersenconcludes that Erechtheus was a figure essentially resembling Zeus-Amphiaraos, Zeus-Asklepios, Zeus-Trophonios^; that thehypaethral opening in the Erechtheion floor was the chasm wherehe, the lightning-god, had entered the earth; and that… … Fig- 757- the epic Erechtheus was not a lightning-god, but a human kingregarded as the Hghtning-god incarnate. Now the transition from the cult of Erechtheus to that ofPoseidon is much facilitated, if we may suppose that the latter, likethe former, wielded the lightning,—that his trident, in short,…
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