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Keraunos

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A named thunderbolt of Hellenic Zeus-speech, a hurled fire-weapon. Not a vajra, not Mjölnir, and not a generic spear.

Hellenic religion

  • Keraunos appears in Hellenic religion.

    Hesiod’s Theogony has the Cyclopes give Zeus the keraunos, the thunderbolt, with thunder and lightning. A named fire-weapon in that cosmogony, not a vajra and not Mjölnir.

    from Hesiod · Theogony, c. 700 BCE

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