άσαι δὲ κα]ὶ πορφύραν ὁλκὴν 𐅂 𐅂 [𐅂.
See B.C.H. 1889, p. 157, and Myth. and Mon. Anc. Athens, p. 331.
[249] Plat. Symp. 180 D. For Aphrodite Ourania, see Myth. and Mon. Anc. Athens, p. 211.
[250] Paus. IX. 16. 3.
[251] I follow M. Victor Bérard, Origine des cultes Arcadiens, p. 142. Ourania is ‘Queen of Heaven,’ מלכת־השׁמים, as in the Hebrew scriptures, Jerem. vii. 18, xliv. 18-20. Pandemos is רבת־הארץ, lady of the land. I have ventured above, [p. 54], to suggest that to the armed Ourania, the Virgo Caelestis, we owe at least some elements in the armed Athena.
[252] Paus. VIII. 32. 2.
[253] Herod. I. 105. The name Kythera is Semitic (כתרת); see M. Victor Bérard, Les Phéniciens et l’Odyssée, p. 427. Kythera means a headdress, a tiara, and its Greek ‘doublette’ is Skandeia.
[254] Paus. I. 14. 7.
[255] We have incidentally curious evidence of the association of Kourotrophos with the Oriental Aphrodite. An inscription (C.I.A. III. 411) found on a Turkish wall near the temple of Nike mentions the entrance to a chapel of Blaute and Kourotrophos (εἴσοδος πρὸς σηκὸν Βλαύτης καὶ Κουροτρόφου). Lydus (de Mens. I. 21), on the authority of Phlegon, tells us that Blatta was ‘a title of Aphrodite among the Phenicians’ (καὶ βλάττα δέ, ἐξ ἧς τὰ βλάττια λέγομεν, ὄνομα Ἀφροδίτης, ἐστι κατὰ τοὺς Φοίνικας ὡς ὁ Φλέγων ἐν τῷ περὶ ἑορτῶν φησί). He does not tell us,—what is obvious enough,—that Blaute and Blatta are Greek attempts to reproduce Baalat (בַּעֲלַת). Blaute is but Aphrodite-Pandemos, Lady, Baalat of the People.
[256] Luke ii. 24.