Chamyne

Chamyne (Greek Χαμύνη) is an epithet, of the Greek goddess Demeter, under whom she was worshiped in Elis.

Pausanias reports from a temple of Demeter Chamyne near Olympia, whose priestess had given a special place at the Olympic Games. [1] Pausanias names two different explanations for the origin of the epithet: It is either associated with the crevice through which the underworld god Hades carried out the robbery of Persephone into the underworld in Greek mythology, or it goes back to a pisat named Chamynos who killed by the Pisatian tyrant Pantaleon and from whose possession the temple was built. [2]

Etymologically, the epithet, as in the name of the Lithuanian earth goddess Zamyna, is traced back to the Indo-European root ghamina (“relating to the earth”, derived from the Greek root χαμα “earth”).

literature

Hermann Steuding: Chamyne. In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Ed.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology. Volume 1,1, Leipzig 1886, column 871 (digitized version).
Otto Jessen: Chamyne. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classical antiquity science (RE) Volume III, 2, Stuttgart 1899, Col. 2109.
Ana Vegas Sansalvador: Χαμύνη, an epithet of Demeter in Olympia. In: Glotta. Vol. 70, 1992, pp. 166-180.

References
Pausanias 6, 20, 9.
Pausanias 6, 21, 1.

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