In one ritual honoring this god, the first ox to eat grain spread over his altar was killed, then, in a show trial the axe that struck the ox was condemned and thrown in the ocean.
In one ritual honoring this god, the first ox to eat grain spread over his altar was killed, then, in a show trial the axe that struck the ox was condemned and thrown in the ocean. One of this god's oracular sites was established on the orders of a black dove at the same time as Ammon's oracle at Siwa, and provided suppliants with oracles based on the rustling of leaves on the sacred oaks, one of which was used in the prow of the Argo. This god tested and then punished Nyctimus's father Lycaon in his role as the patron of guest-friendship, or xenia. FTP, name this god who maintained an oracle at Dodona and rewarded Baucis and Philemon for their hospitality to him and his son Hermes.
In one ritual honoring this god, the first ox to eat grain spread over his altar was killed, then, in a show trial the axe that struck the ox was condemned and thrown in the ocean.
{Zeus}