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EFlO^l' {continued). 



On the Tereus-myth, and the mythology of the Hoopoe in general, 

 see in particular E. Oder, Der Wiedehopf in d. gr. Sage, Rhein. Mus. 

 (N. F.), xliii. pp. 541-556, 1888. 



A weather-prophet, Horap. ii. 92 iav Trp6 tov Knlpov rwv apneKoDv 

 TToXXa Kpd^D, evoLviav (TTjpnlvei. The same of the Cuckoo, Plin. H. N. 

 xviii. 249, Hor. Sat. i. 7, 30. With ep. al'crios', Anton. Lib. xi. 



Phil. De An. Pr. 667 (pdiais 8e rols €no\ln dopKaScov areap (also 

 Ael. H. A. vi. 46). lb. 724, uses iiypaiaTLs as a remedy (cf KopuSos). Ael. 

 i. 35 places d^iavrov or KaWtrpixop (cf. deros) 3-s an amulet in its nest or 

 heals itself when injured, Horap. ii. 93 ; also written dniavTou, Geopon. 

 XV. 1,19. 



How the Hoopoe by means of a certain herb (the same dblavTOp) 

 liberates its imprisoned young, Ael. iii. 26, cf. Ar. Av. 654, 655. The 

 same story of Picus, Plin. H. N. x. 18 (20), vide s. v. SpuoKoXdTmqs. 

 This is a version of the well-known Samir-legend (the ' open Sesame ' 

 of the Forty Thieves), and is told also of the Hoopoe in connexion 

 with Solomon (Boch. Hieroz. ii. 347). See also Buxdorf, Lex. Talmud, 

 col. 2455 : on similar German superstitions see Meier, Schwab. Sagen, 

 Nr. 265. On Indian versions of the story of the Hoopoe which shel- 

 tered Solomon from the sun, see W. F. Sinclair, Ind. Antiquary, 1874. 

 also ib. 1873, p. 229, Curzon's Monast. of the Levant, c. xii. Sec. The 

 story of the Indian Hoopoe, Ael. xvi. 5, which buried its father in its 

 head (vide s. v. KopuSos) is probably connected with the same legend ; 

 see Lassen, Ind. Alterth. 2nd ed. i. p. 304. The statement (Ael. I.e.) 

 that the eVox//' 'Ij/Siko? is SinXdaiop tov nap' rjiuv, koX wpaidrepov I8eiv, is 

 purely fabulous. 



Filial affection of the Hoopoe, Ael. x. 16, vide s. v. KOUKOu<{>a, 

 TreXapyos. The Hoopoe on coins of Antoninus as a symbol of filial love, 

 Eckhel, Doctr. numm. vi. 531, Creuzer, Symbolik, ii. p. 64, Zoega, 

 Numm. Eg. Imp. pi. x. i, Seguin. Scl. Numism. p. 152. 



The evil smell of the Hoopoe suggests a connexion with Pitumnus 

 in the story of Pilumnus and Pitumnus or Sterculinius ; Serv. Aen. ix. 4 

 fratres fuerunt dii ; horum Pitumnus usum stercorandorum invenit 

 agrorum, Oder, op. c. p. 556 : cf. Jordan-Preller, Rom. Myth. i. 375. 



The Hoopoe was a sacred bird in Egypt, as it still is among the 

 Arabs (cf. Creuzer, I.e., Denon pi. 119, 8, &.C., &c.). From its rayed 

 crest it was a solar emblem, and it is in part as such that it comes into 

 relation with KipKos, the sacred hawk of the solar Apollo. The wood- 

 pecker, with its red or golden crest (cf. Ov. Met. xiv. 394) becomes in 

 like manner a solar emblem, and there is a curious parallel in the con- 

 nexion between Ci'rce and the metamorphosis of Picus. As a solar 

 emblem also, the Hoopoe figures in the version of the Phoenix-myth 



