Cook, Arthur Bernard, 1868-1952 · Cambridge, [Eng.] : University Press · leaf 442
of MarcusAurelius and the column of Trajan2, which in a like position hadplaced Iupiter fulminant3, we are practically compelled to identifythis novel personage with Iupiter Pluvius*. Rain, then, was conceived sometimes as the child of Zeus,sometimes as the tears of Zeus, sometimes as water falling… … Fig. 209. W. Scott Hermetica Oxford 1924 i. 32 n. 1, with Frontispiece, describes a sectilepavement at the west end of the Duomo in Siena, which shows Hermes Mercurius Tris-mcgistus I contemporaneus Moysi. Hermes is here an elderly man with long hair andbeard. He wears a high pointed hat or mitre…
Zeus (Greek deity) · Cults · Sun worship · Classical antiquities · Folk literature
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