| Sumario: | In the next section, I examine the semantic range of I chthonios i when applied to deities, exploring how many of the traits indicated by literary sources are discernible in the cult environment, and whether the meaning of I chthonios i can be helpful in understanding and defining cult characteristics of chthonian deities. Google Scholar Google Preview OpenURL Placeholder Text WorldCat COPAC 11 - - 2013: 'Divinities in the Orphic gold leaves: Eukles, Eubouleus, Brimo, Kybele, Kore and Persephone', Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 187, 35 - 48. Therefore, the meaning of I chthonios i must bear more solemn connotations than just "native" in this case, perhaps rendering the reverent fear about which Athena speaks in Aeschylus' I Eumenides i .[38] We will come back to this point as well as to the remaining two passages in which I chthonios i refers exclusively to deities.[39] It is important to notice at this point that I chthonios i is never used to indicate people as indigenous inhabitants of a given place. Google Scholar Google Preview OpenURL Placeholder Text WorldCat COPAC 29 Hadzisteliou Price, T. 1978: Kourotrophos: Cult and Representations of the Greek Nursing Deities, Leiden.
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