Zeus Georgos (Ζεύς Γεωργός, i.e. Zeus "the husbandman" or "the tiller") was a form of
Zeus venerated in
Ancient Athens
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. He was a god of farmland and of crops, and his festival was on the 10th day of
Maimakterion
The Attic calendar or Athenian calendar is the lunisolar calendar beginning in midsummer with the lunar month of Hekatombaion, in use in ancient Attica, the ancestral territory of the Athenian polis. It is sometimes called the Greek calendar beca ...
, at the time of plowing and sowing.
There were also sacrifices to Zeus Georgos at
harvest
Harvesting is the process of gathering a ripe crop from the fields. Reaping is the cutting of grain or pulse for harvest, typically using a scythe, sickle, or reaper. On smaller farms with minimal mechanization, harvesting is the most labor-i ...
(the Greek
Thalysia, also known as ''Pankarpia'').
The given name
Georgios Georgios (, , ) is a Greek name derived from the word ''georgos'' (, , "farmer" lit. "earth-worker"). The word ''georgos'' (, ) is a compound of ''ge'' (, , "earth", "soil") and ''ergon'' (, , "task", "undertaking", "work").
It is one of the most ...
is in origin a theophoric name relating to Zeus Georgos.
References
*Albrecht Dietrich, ''Abraxas - Studien Zur Religionsgeschichte Des Spätern Altertums'' (1891)
p. 123
*Martin Persson Nilsson, ''Geschichte der griechischen Religion: Die Religion Griechenlands bis auf die griechische Weltherrschaft'' (1992), {{ISBN, 9783406013706,
p. 127
Zeus
Fertility gods
Georgos