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Keraunos
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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Keraunos is used in Hellenic religion.
The Iliad seats Zeus’s thunderbolt among the god’s battle and omen weapons when he thunders over the field. A named Homeric keraunos in divine-weapon use, not Hesiod’s theogonic bolt alone and not a missing zeus sacred_to dump.
from Homer · Iliad, c. 8th–7th century BCE (this form)
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Keraunos is sacred to Zeus.
Hesiod’s Theogony has the Cyclopes give Zeus the keraunos — thunderbolt with thunder and lightning — as his own sky-weapon. A named bolt sacred to that god in the cosmogony, not a vajra and not Mjölnir.
from Hesiod · Theogony, c. 700 BCE
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Keraunos is used in Titanomachy.
Hesiod’s Theogony has Zeus hurl the Cyclopes’ keraunos in the war that casts the Titans into Tartarus. A named thunderbolt used in that Titanomachy, not Iliad battlefield use already walked and not lightning as weather speech alone.
from Hesiod · Theogony, c. 700 BCE
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Roman religion
Keraunos appears in Roman religion.
Virgil’s Aeneid seats Jupiter’s thunderbolt among divine anger, omen, and battlefield signs. A named keraunos in that epic, not thunder or lightning as weather speech alone and not a generic storm dump.
from Virgil · Aeneid, 19 BCE (unfinished at the poet’s death)
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