ad_, ix, 457, it is Zeus
Katachthonios who is lord below.

[1348] AEschylus, _Prometheus Bound_, 806.

[1349] Cf. the development of Osiris (above, Sec. 728).

[1350] Cf. Greek Horkos, and the oath by the Styx.

[1351] Cf. Miss Harrison, _Prolegomena to the Study of Greek
Religion_, chap. vi.

[1352] Cf. Roscher, _Lexikon_, s.v.; Miss Harrison,
_Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion_, p. 271 ff.

[1353] Compare Mannhardt, _Mythologische Forschungen_, p.
320 ff.; Frazer, _Golden Bough_, 2d ed., ii, 176 ff.

[1354] Compare Miss Harrison, op. cit., p. 271 ff.

[1355] By her name she is identified with the hearth, as
similarly Zeus is identified with the sky. The hearth was
the center of the home, and had wide cultic significance.
The name Hestia embodies not the divinization of a concrete
object, but the recognition of the divine person presiding
over the object in question.

[1356] Roscher, _Lexikon_; Farnell, _Cults of the Greek
States_.

[1357] _Odyssey_, xx, 71.

[1358] The representation of her as the slayer of women with
her "kindly arrows" (_Odyssey_, xx, 67), that is, by an easy
death, is in keeping with the early idea that death was
caused by some supernatural Power; so Apollo slays (_Iliad_,
xxiv, 759).

[1359] Leto is a Titaness (Hesiod, _Theogony_, 404 ff.), an
old local goddess, naturally a patron of children, and so of
similar nature with Artemis, with whom she was often joined
in worship. Her connection with Apollo arose possibly from a
collocation of her cult with his in some place; in such
collocations the goddess would become, in mythological
constructions, the mother, sister, or wife of the god. This
relation once established, stories explaining it would
spring up as a matter of course. The fact that she was later
identified with the Asian Great Mother indicates that she
also had a universal character.

[1360] Hesiod, _Theogony_, 411 ff.

[1361] She was, perhaps, an underground deity, or the
product of the fusion of two deities, one of whom was
chthonic.

[1362] Farnell, _Cults of the Greek States_; Roscher,
_Lexikon_.

[1363] Thus the Greeks endeavored to embody in divine
figures all sides of family life. The division of functions
between Hera, Hestia, and Athene is clear.

[1364] As, for example, 'fragile' and 'frail,' 'intension'
and 'intention,' 'providential' and 'prudential,