Grain and oil appear to be the usual gifts for Zeus, whether Diktaian or not. A month, Diwios, is named after him, which survives in the month Dios of later Macedonia, Aetolia and Thessaly; and this must mean that his festival, evidently the Diwia, took place at that time of the year. So already we have many elements that will be familiar later: the god Zeus; an epithet associating him with a place, a mountain; a month, and therefore probably a festival; a precinct or special place, the Diwion; a priest; probably a consort (whether Hera or DIWION) and apparently a son, implying a mythology of a divine family. The son of Zeus has echoes in mainstream Greek Tradtion.
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