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	Lycaon - LoveToKnow 1911
		Usener and others identify Lycaon with Zeus Lycaeus, the god of light, who slays his son Nyctimus (the dark) or is succeeded by him, in allusion to the perpetual succession of night and day.
		Meyer, the belief that Zeus Lycaeus accepted human sacrifice in the form of a wolf was the origin of the myth that Lycaon, the founder of his cult, became a wolf, i.e.
		Berard) take Zeus Lycaeus for a Semitic Baal, whose worship was imported into Arcadia by the Phoenicians; Immerwahr identifies him with Zeus Phyxios, the god of the exile who flees on account of his having shed blood.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Lycaon (646 words)

	Station Information - Zeus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Zeus Ceneus was a frequent epithet of Zeus', referring to a temple on Cape Canaeum of Euboea.
		Meyer, the belief that Zeus Lycaeus accepted human sacrifice in the form of a wolf was the origin of the myth that Lycaon, the founder of his cult, became a wolf, i.e.
		Zeus was unable to refuse and she placed the watchman Argus to guard the cow.
	www.stationinformation.com /encyclopedia/z/ze/zeus_1.html (2366 words)

	Zeus Biography
		Zeus Ceneus was a frequent epithet of Zeus', referring to a temple on Cape Canaeum of Euboea.
		Zeus made the decision to marry Aphrodite off to Hephaestus in order to prevent violence over her between the many gods who lusted after the goddess of beauty.
		Zeus was unable to refuse and she placed the watchman Argus to guard the cow.
	www.myclassiclyrics.com /artist_biographies/Zeus_Biography.htm (2357 words)

	ZEUS : Greek king of the gods, god of sky & weather ; mythology ; pictures : JUPITER
		ZEUS (Zeus), the greatest of the Olympian gods, and the father of gods and men, was a son of Cronos and Rhea, a brother of Poseidon, Hades (Pluto), Hestia, Demeter, Hera, and at the same time married to his sister Hera.
		The Arcadian Zeus (Zeus Lukaios) was born, according to the legends of the country, in Arcadia, either on Mount Parrhasion (Callim.
		O Zeus, all-blessed, may thy wrath severe, hurled in the bosom of the deep appear, and on the tops of mountains be revealed, for thy strong arm is not from us concealed.
	www.theoi.com /Olympios/Zeus.html (2660 words)

	Zeus:
		The conquests of Zeus among nymphs and the mythic mortal progenitors of Hellenic dynasties are famous.
		Zeus condemned Ixion to be tied to a fiery wheel for eternity as punishment for attempting to violate Hera.
		Zeus rewarded Tiresias with a life three times the norm as reward for ruling in his favour when he and Hera contested which of the sexes gained the most pleasure from the act of love.
	winelib.com /wiki/Zeus (3180 words)

	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 1322 (v. 3)
		After this Zeus, by his second wife Themis, became the father of the Horae and Moerae ; of the Charites by Eurynome, of Persephone by Denieter, of the Muses by Mnemosyne, of Apollo and Artemis by Leto, and of Hebe, Ares, and Eileithyia by Hera.
		In surveying the different local traditions about Zeus, it would seem that originally there were several, at least three, divinities which in their respective countries were supreme, but which in the course of time became united in the minds of the people into one great national divinity.
		The Arcadian Zeus (Zeus aukcuos) was born, according to the legends of the country, in Arcadia, either on Mount Parrhasion (Callim.
	www.ancientlibrary.com /smith-bio/3656.html (945 words)

	zeus
		In Greek myth and religion, Zeus is the supreme god, the youngest (according to Homer the eldest) son of Chronus whom he overthrew and succeeded.
		Zeus is called the father of gods and men and had perhaps been so addressed since Indo-European times, although he is not the father of all the gods and did not create men (for stories about the creation of men see DEUCALION and PROMETHEUS).
		Zeus has the power, if he wishes, to save Hector whom he loves, as he might have saved his own son Sarpedon, but it is men's 'fate' (moira) or 'portion' (aisa) to die, and Zeus does not overrule the apportionment (see FATE).
	www.wsu.edu /~hughesc/zeus.htm (764 words)

	Zeus
		Zeus (Greek Zευς) or Dias (Greek Διας) ("divine king") was the leader of the gods and god of the sky and thunder in Greek mythology, equivalent to the Roman god Jupiter or Jove and associated with various other deities, such as the Egyptian Ammon and Etruscan Tinia.
		Zeus Ceneus was a frequent ephithet of Zeus', referring to a temple on Cape Canaeum[?] of Euboea.
		Another epithet was Zeus Panhellenios, to whom Aeacus' famous temple on Aegina was founded as well Zeus Lycaeus, in which he was the god of the sun and light (see also Lycaon and that section below).
	www.fastload.org /ze/Zeus.html (2344 words)

	Lycaeus - LoveToKnow 1911
		Diaphorti), a mountain in Arcadia, sacred to Zeus Lycaeus, who was said to have been born and brought up on it, and the home of Pelasgus and his son Lycaon, who is said to have founded the ritual of Zeus practised on its summit.
		This seems to have involved a human sacrifice, and a feast in which the man who received the portion of a human victim was changed to a wolf, as Lycaon had been after sacrificing a child.
		The altar of Zeus consists of a great mound of ashes with a retaining wall.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Lycaeus (124 words)

	Frazer, Sir James George. 1922. The Golden Bough
		Perhaps the bronze gongs which kept up a humming in the wind round the sanctuary were meant to mimick the thunder that might so often be heard rolling and rumbling in the coombs of the stern and barren mountains which shut in the gloomy valley.
		And on Mount Lycaeus in Arcadia the character of Zeus as god both of the oak and of the rain comes out clearly in the rain charm practised by the priest of Zeus, who dipped an oak branch in a sacred spring.
		Thus when ancient Greek kings claimed to be descended from Zeus, and even to bear his name, we may reasonably suppose that they also attempted to exercise his divine functions by making thunder and rain for the good of their people or the terror and confusion of their foes.
	www.bartleby.com /196/pages/page159.html (559 words)

	Littleowlluna - Greek Gods and Goddesses: Z (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Zeus disguised himself as a poor traveler, and the brothers gave him a soup of goat umbles and the guts of their brother.
		Zeus, undeceived, became angry and restored Nyctimus (the brother) to life and changed the rest to wolves.
		Zeus sent a flood, intending to kill mankind, but Deucalion (king of Phthia) had been warned by Prometheus; he and his wife (Pyrrha) had built an ark and were saved.
	www.stormpages.com /littleowlluna/base2/greekgodsz.html (266 words)

	Constellations & Stars, Greek Mythology Link - www.maicar.com
		He then chased her into the temple of Zeus Lycaeus, where the penalty for entering is death, according to Arcadian law.
		The constellation of the Greater Dog is, according to some, the extraordinary dog Laelaps 2, which was given by Zeus as a guardian for Europa, and later acquired by King Minos 2 of Crete, who gave it to Procris 2 as a bribe so that she would lie in his bed beside him.
		Zeus visited Nemesis or Leda in the form of a swan which he afterwards placed among the stars as a constellation [Hyg.Ast.2.8; Man.1.337].
	homepage.mac.com /cparada/GML/CONSTELLATIONS.html (3975 words)

	ZEUS \| \| Dictionary & Translation by Babylon
		In Greek mythology, Zeus (in Greek: nominative: Ζεύς Zeús, genitive: Διός Díos) is the king of the gods, the ruler of Mount Olympus, and god of the sky and thunder.
		ZEUS is a particle detector in operation at HERA (Hadron Elektron Ring Anlage) in DESY, Hamburg.
		ZEUS is operated by an international collaboration of about 400 physicists from 42 institutes in 15 countries.
	www.babylon.com /definition/ZEUS/All (806 words)

	Zeus, Greece, Greek mythology
		Zeus was a weather god, as well as the protector of the law, the state, the society, the city, the family and strangers.
		Zeus main shrine was in Dodona, where it was believed one could hear the future being told by the wind blowing through the the leafs of the holy oaktrees that grew there.
		On Crete Zeus was especially worshipped since it was believed he grew up there, in hiding from his father who would have eaten him had he known of Zeus existence.
	www.in2greece.com /english/historymyth/mythology/names/zeus.htm (491 words)

	Zeus - Definition up Erdmond.Com
		However, disregarding linguistic evidence, some people claim that the worship of Zeus originated among the Mycenean heirs of Minoans, where he was known as the Earthshaker.
		Zeus may father upon the nymph the eponymous progenitor of a race of kings which may survive into heroic times or archaic history.
		One account of the origin of the, and a spurt of her milk formed the smear across the sky that can be seen to this day.
	www.erdmond.com /Zeus.html (2413 words)

	Chapter 15. The Worship of the Oak. Frazer, Sir James George. 1922. The Golden Bough
		In ancient Italy every oak was sacred to Jupiter, the Italian counterpart of Zeus; and on the Capitol at Rome the god was worshipped as the deity not merely of the oak, but of the rain and the thunder.
		Thus the chief Lithuanian deity presents a close resemblance to Zeus and Jupiter, since he was the god of the oak, the thunder, and the rain.
		From the foregoing survey it appears that a god of the oak, the thunder, and the rain was worshipped of old by all the main branches of the Aryan stock in Europe, and was indeed the chief deity of their pantheon.
	www.bartleby.com /196/26.html (1267 words)

	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 843 (v. 2)
		It is added that he sacrificed a child on the altar of Zeus, and that during the sacrifice he was changed by Zeus into a wolf (Paus.
		The sons of Lycaon are said to have been notorious for their insolence and impiety, and Zeus visited them in the disguise of a poor man, with a view to punish them.
		However, Zeus pushed away the table which bore the horrible food, and the place where this happened was afterwards called -Trapezus.
	www.ancientlibrary.com /smith-bio/1951.html (971 words)

	Greek Mythology
		Zeus had been hidden by Rhea so that Cronos would not swallow him like he had all of his other offspring; he had been warned that one of his children would eventually overthrow him.
		Poseidon is the brother of Zeus and Hades.
		Apollo is the son of Zeus and Leto.
	www.geocities.com /sandrilene.geo/greek.html (1859 words)

	Lycaeus Mons Lycaeus mod Diaphorti is a mountain in Arcadia... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Diaphorti) is a mountain in Arcadia Arcadia, sacred to Zeus Zeus.
		Lycaeus, who was said to have been born and brought up on it, and the home of Pelasgus Pelasgus and his son Lycaon Lycaon, who is said to have founded the ritual of Zeus Zeus practised on its summit.
		This seems to have involved a human sacrifice human sacrifice, and a feast in which the man who received the portion of a human victim was changed to a wolf wolf, as Lycaon had been after sacrificing a child.
	www.biodatabase.de /Lycaeus (177 words)

	Zeus
		When Zeus and his brothers distributed among themselves the government of the world by lot, Poseidon obtained the sea, Hades the lower world, and Zeus the heavens and the upper regions, but the earth became common to all.
		Athena was born out of the head of Zeus; while Hera, on the other hand, gave birth to Hephaestus without the cooperation of Zeus.
		No one was allowed to enter the sanctuary of Zeus Lycaeus on Mount Lycaeon, and there was a belief that, if any one entered it, he died within twelve months after, and that in it neither human beings nor animals cast a shadow.
	bulfinch.englishatheist.org /b/pantheon/Zeus.html (1687 words)

	Lycaon
		He was the father of Callisto and, according to some, he raised her son Arcas.
		The oldest city, the oldest cult (that of Zeus Lycaeus), and the first civilization of Arcadia are attributed to Lycaon.
		According to Weizsäcker, he was an old Pelasgian or pre-Hellenic god, to whom human sacrifice was offered, bearing a non-Hellenic name similar to Avkos, whence the story originated of his metamorphosis into a wolf.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ly/Lycaon.html (371 words)

	HAGNO : Okeanid & Naiad nymph of Mt Lycaeus in Arcadia ; Greek mythology
		HAGNO was the Naiad Nymph of a spring on Mount Lykaios in Arkadia (southern Greece).
		She was one of three Arkadian wet-nurses of the god Zeus, the other two being the Nymphai Neda and Theisoa.
		When the country was suffering from drought, the priest of Zeus Lycaeus, after having offered up prayers and sacrifices, touched the surface of the well with the branch of an oak tree, whereupon clouds were formed immediately which refreshed the country with rain.
	www.theoi.com /Nymphe/NympheHagno.html (475 words)

	the_horde - the_horde - Pictures
		Zeus’ continual lusting after them (appearing to them in multiple human and animal forms to seduce them) made the girls wary of men.
		Though the rumors spread that she was the daughter of Zeus, Leda the wife of Tyndarcus took Laurel in and treated her like her own, this often affected Laurel’s relationship with the actual children of Leda, Zeus and Tyndarcus.
		Although Zeus is obsessed with the sisters actively looking for ways to seduce them; he tends to protect them as his ego will not allow Hera's clans or Apollo to win.
	www.greatestjournal.com /userinfo.bml?user=the_horde (2977 words)

	Zeus: de Griekse oppergod \| Kunst en cultuur: Mythologie
		Toen Zeus volwassen was, ging hij naar zijn vader en vertelde hem de waarheid over zijn geboorte.
		Zeus bevrijdde echter de Cyclopen, honderdkoppige reuzen, uit de gevangenis van Kronos, en kreeg daarom hun hulp.
		Ze was de vrouw van oppergod Zeus en ze heeft 4 kinderen gekregen.
	kunst-en-cultuur.infonu.nl /mythologie/3099-zeus-de-griekse-oppergod.html (605 words)

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