Editing Labrys (section)

==Double axes in the Near East==
In the [[Near East]] and other parts of the region, eventually, axes of this sort often are wielded by male divinities and appear to become symbols of the thunderbolt, a symbol often found associated with the axe symbol.<ref>{{cite web |title=Minoan Religion |publisher=[[Dartmouth College]] |url=http://projectsx.dartmouth.edu/history/bronze_age/lessons/les/15.html |url-status=dead <!-- presumed --> |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120718124320/http://projectsx.dartmouth.edu/history/bronze_age/lessons/les/15.html |archive-date=2012-07-18}}</ref> In [[Labraunda]] of [[Caria]] the double-axe accompanies the storm-god [[Zeus Labraundos]]. Similar symbols have been found on plates of [[Linear pottery culture]] in [[Romania]].<ref name=Schachermeyr-1964/>{{rp|style=ama|p= 162}} The double-axe is associated with the [[Hurrian]] god of sky and storm [[Teshub]]. His [[Hittites|Hittite]] and [[Luwian language|Luwian]] name was [[Tarhun (god)|Tarhun]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Tarhun |url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/Tarhun |website=[[Encyclopædia Britannica]] |date=July 20, 1998}}</ref> Both are depicted holding a triple [[thunderbolt]] in one hand and a double axe in the other hand. Similarly, [[Zeus]] throws his thunderbolt to bring a storm. The ''labrys'', or ''pelekys'', is the double axe Zeus uses to invoke storm and, the relatively modern Greek word for lightning is "star-axe" ({{lang|grc|ἀστροπελέκι}} {{lang|grc-Latn|astropeleki}})<ref>{{cite book |first=M. |last=Nilsson |year=1967 |title=Die Geschichte der griechischen Religion |lang=de |trans-title=The History of Greek Religion |volume=I |page=267 ff |publisher=C.F. Beck Verlag |place=Munich, DE}}</ref> The worship of the double axe was kept up in the Greek island of [[Tenedos]] and in several cities in the south-west of [[Asia Minor]], and it appears in later historical times in the cult of the thunder god of Asia Minor (Zeus Labrayndeus).