A very rough schema for Burkert, Structure and History,ch. 6:
TELAPINUS son of Teshub (Storm God)
goes missing, and with him all goods are gone
Sun god sends eagle, but T is not found
until Mother Goddess sends out the bee T is found sleeping in a meadow the Bee stings him awake
Telepinus enraged stirs flood and quake
T is at last passified by ritual slaughter of the Sun God’s sheep and pole is raised with fleece stuffed with bounty of fat, grain, etc.
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esp. at Thelp-usa & Tilph-usa (<< Telep-inus?) aka Erinys ‘the Angry One’
Demeter is hiding (because of Poseidon’s rape?) All the world perishes of hunger. Gods of Olympus powerless to find her
until Pan, the Arcadian goat god, finds her in a cave.
Zeus sends the Moirae (‘Fates’)
Demeter persuaded, returns with all fruits of earth (giving birth to Arion/Erion, ‘foal of anger’?) |
Hera at Samos also honored as goddess of bounty gone missing
esp. in the form of a plank (~daidalon) with head of the goddess and robed with bounty (fruits and breasts?)
Burkert links ‘the plank with the garment and pectoral of affluence ... to the fleece on the eia-tree’ (stuffed with goods)
Plataians, honoring Earth Plataia, the bride of Zeus (=Hera?) choose the tree for cutting the daidalon put out strips of meat and follow the raven to its tree (like bee to Telepinus?) |
Apollo, son of Zeus, honored by Eiresione and Daphnephoria (draping branch or tree with wool and ornaments
Burkert’s stone-age prototype: the great hunter long gone in search of vanished herds returning with food hanging on a pole
transferred, in neolithic era of agriculture, to Great mother and girl sacrifice translated into a message of solidarity and tribal well-being
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