The Religions of the World
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182. Greek gods. — The Greeks were monogamous and reckoned descent through the father. The one primitive Indo-European god whom the Greeks brought with them was Zeus, called "Zeus pater, " etymologically identical with "Dyaush pitar" of the Vedas.^ As with the Hindus, he was the god of the overarching sky. They appear also to have brought with them Apollo, the god who guided the wanderer through the trackless wild, perhaps originally a wolf-god, but later identified with the sun, who guides the... wanderer on his way. Like their Aryan brethren of India, the Greeks worshiped Helios, or the sun, Eos, or the dawn, and Ge, the earth. We cannot be sure that the worship of these gods goes back to primitive Indo-European days, for the names ' So Farnell in Hastings' Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics, VII, 396; Higher Aspects of the Greek Religion (New York, 191 2), pp. 8 ff.
' So Gilbert Murray, Four Stages of Greek Religion (New York, 191 2), pp. 74 ff- 5 See above, p. 146.
THE RELIGION OF GREECE 247 by which the Greeks called them are not connected with the names given them in India.
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182. Greek gods. — The Greeks were monogamous and reckoned descent through the father. The one primitive Indo-European god whom the Greeks brought with them was Zeus, called "Zeus pater, " etymologically identical with "Dyaush pitar" of the Vedas.^ As with the Hindus, he was the god of the overarching sky. They appear also to have brought with them Apollo, the god who guided the wanderer through the trackless wild, perhaps originally a wolf-god, but later identified with the sun, who guides the... wanderer on his way. Like their Aryan brethren of India, the Greeks worshiped Helios, or the sun, Eos, or the dawn, and Ge, the earth. We cannot be sure that the worship of these gods goes back to primitive Indo-European days, for the names ' So Farnell in Hastings' Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics, VII, 396; Higher Aspects of the Greek Religion (New York, 191 2), pp. 8 ff.
' So Gilbert Murray, Four Stages of Greek Religion (New York, 191 2), pp. 74 ff- 5 See above, p. 146.
THE RELIGION OF GREECE 247 by which the Greeks called them are not connected with the names given them in India.
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