Palici
The Palici (
Genealogy
The mythological lineage of the Palici is uncertain. One version of the legend attributes their parentage to sky god Zeus and nymph Aetna. Others associate their birth to a coupling between Aetna herself and smith deity Hephaestus. The "Greek version" indicate they are sons of Zeus and another nymph, called Thaleia.[2] A third account claimed that the Palici were the sons of the Sicilian deity Adranus.
The medieval Vatican Mythographers book ascribed their lineage to Zeus and Aetna: Zeus (Jupiter) impregnated Aetna and she, fearing the wrath of Hera (Juno), was entrusted to Earth to protect her and her sons.[3][4]
Interpretations
The second book of the Vatican Mythographers translated their name as 'twice-born'.[4]
Scholar Marcel Meulder argues for a Proto-Indo-European origin for their name, and relates it to a group of Greek compound names that belong to the semantic field of colours (e.g., leuko 'white'; melas 'black'). Thus, their name would mean 'of a white colour, of a grey colour, of a yellow colour' ("blanchâtre, jaunâtre, grisâtre”").[5][6] He also suggests it as evidence of the Indo-European character of the Siculian language.[5]
Polish historian Krzysztof Tomasz Witczak and Daria Zawiasa suggest the Palici may derive from the old
Notes
- ISBN 978-1-4008-3585-0.
- ^ Witczak K. T., Zawiasa D. (2004). "Palici – the Sicilian Twin Brothers and the Indo- European Myth about Divine Twins". In: Živa Antika [Antiquité Vivante] 54(1–2), 2004, pp. 55–57.
- ISBN 978-0-8232-9331-5.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-8232-9331-5.
- ^ JSTOR 41538205.
- S2CID 192732795.
- ^ Witczak, K. T.; Zawiasa, D. "The Sicilian Palici as representatives of the indo-european divine twins". In: ΜΥΘΟΣ, n. 12, 2004-2005. pp. 93-106.
- ^ Witczak K. T., Zawiasa D. (2004). "Palici – the Sicilian Twin Brothers and the Indo- European Myth about Divine Twins". In: Živa Antika [Antiquité Vivante] 54(1–2), 2004, pp. 56–60.
References
- Hammond, N.G.L. & Scullard, H.H. (eds.). The Oxford Classical Dictionary (Oxford; Oxford University Press. 1970).
- Wilson, R.J.A. Sicily under the Roman Empire (Warminster: Aris and Phillips, 1990), p. 278.
- Maniscalco, Laura (ed.). Il santuario dei Palici: un centro di culto nella Valle del Margi (Palermo: Regione Siciliana, 2008) (Collana d'Area. Quaderno n. 11).
- Meulder, Marcel (1998). "Les dieux sicules paliques portent un nom indo-européen". Latomus. 57 (1): 33–37. JSTOR 41538205.
- Meurant, Alain. Les Paliques, dieux jumeaux siciliens. Louvain-la-Neuve: Peeters, 1998. ISBN 90-429-0235-3.
Further reading
- Croon, J. H. (1952). "The Palici: An Autochthonous Cult in Ancient Sicily". Mnemosyne. 5 (2): 116–129. JSTOR 4427356.
- Cipolla, Paolo B. (2022). "(Re)writing a Sicilian Myth: The Palici and Aeschylus' Aitnaiai". Myth and History: Close Encounters. pp. 187–206. ISBN 978-3-11-078011-6.
- Cusumano, Nicola (2013). "Fabriquer un culte ethnique. Écriture rituelle et généalogies mythiques dans le sanctuaire des Paliques en Sicile" [Building an ethnic cult. Ritual writing and mythical genealogies in the Sicilian sanctuary of the Palikoi gods]. Revue de l'histoire des religions (in French). 230 (2): 167–184. JSTOR 23618389.
- Sampson, C. Michael (2018). "Macrobius, Aeschylus' Aetnaeae, and the Myth(s) of the Palici". In Sampson, Michael; Pratt, Louise (eds.). Engaging Classical Texts in the Contemporary World: From Narratology to Reception. University of Michigan Press. pp. 179–194. JSTOR 10.3998/mpub.9905263.13.
- Thatcher, Mark (November 2019). "Aeschylus' Aetnaeans , The Palici and Cultural Politics in Deinomenid Sicily". The Journal of Hellenic Studies. 139: 67–82. S2CID 204450203.
- Archeology
- Maniscalco, Laura; McConnell, Brian E. (2003). "The Sanctuary of the Divine Palikoi (Rocchicella di Mineo, Sicily): Fieldwork from 1995 to 2001". American Journal of Archaeology. 107 (2): 145–180. S2CID 155841895.
- Maniscalco, Laura (2014). "The Sanctuary of the Palikoi at Rocchicella (Mineo): The Copper Age Structures and the 'Boiling Waters' Phenomenon". In Gullì, Domenica (ed.). From Cave to Dolmen: Ritual and symbolic aspects in the prehistory between Sciacca, Sicily and the central Mediterranean. Archaeopress. pp. 169–178. JSTOR j.ctvqmp11h.22.
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