Chamyne
Chamyne ( Greek Χαμύνη ) is a nickname, an epithet , of the Greek goddess Demeter , under whom she was worshiped in Elis .
Pausanias reports a near Olympia nearby Temple of Demeter Chamyne whose priestess at the Olympics have allowed a special place. Pausanias names two different explanations for the origin of the epithet: It is either associated with the crevice through which the underworld god Hades in Greek mythology carried out the robbery of Persephone into the underworld , or it goes back to a pisat named Chamynos , who killed by the Pisatian tyrant Pantaleon and from whose possession the temple was built.
Etymologically , the epithet, like the name of the Lithuanian earth goddess Zamyna , is traced back to the Indo-European root ghamina (“concerning the earth”, derived from the Greek root χαμα “earth”).
literature
- Hermann Steuding : Chamyne . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,1, Leipzig 1886, column 871 ( digitized version ).
- Otto Jessen : Chamyne. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume III, 2, Stuttgart 1899, Col. 2109.
- Ana Vegas Sansalvador: Χαμύνη, an epithet of Demeter in Olympia. In: Glotta . Vol. 70, 1992, pp. 166-180.