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  CORYBANTES, Greek Mythology Link.
The CORYBANTES are inclined to dancing and to religious frenzy, and worship the Mother of the Gods with orgies.
The CORYBANTES are sometimes said to have been expelled from their country by their father Socus 2, and to have ruled the Euboean battalions that joined Dionysus 2 in his war against the Indians.
Others have said that Cybele (the Mother of the Gods, identified with Rhea 1) was the mother of the CORYBANTES, whom she settled in the island of Samothrace.
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 CURETES - LoveToKnow Article on CURETES   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The dance was originally distinguished from that of the Corybantes by its comparative moderation, and took on the full character of the latter only after the cult of the Great 1~lother, Cybele, to which it belonged, spread to Greek soil.
Their origin is variously related: they were earthborn, sprung of the rain, sons of Zeus and Hera, sons of Apollo and Danais, sons of Rhea, of the Dactyli, contemporary with the Titans (Diod.
The worship of both was akin in nature to that of the Dactyli, the Cabeiri, and even of Dionysus, the special visible bond being the orgiastic character of their rites.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /C/CU/CURETES.htm   (471 words)

  
 CORYBANTES - LoveToKnow Article on CORYBANTES   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Like the Curetes, Dactyli, Telchines and Cabeiri (q.v.), however, they represent primitive gods of procreative significance, who survived in the historic period as subordinate deities associated with a form of the Great Mother goddess, their relation to the Great Mother of the Gods, Cybele, being comparable with that of Attis (q.v.).
The dance of the Corybantic priests, like that of the priests who represented the~Curetes, may have originated in a primitive faith in the power of noise to avert evil.
In art the Corybantes appear, usually not more than two or three in number, fully armed and executing their orgiastic dance in the presence of the Great Mother, her lions and Attis.
43.1911encyclopedia.org /C/CO/CORYBANTES.htm   (298 words)

  
 Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 521 (v. 1)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Ac­cording to Pherecydes, Apollo and Rhytia were the parents of the nine Corybantes who dwelled in Samothrace, and the three Cabeiri and the three Cabeirian nymphs were the children of Cabeira, the daughter of Proteus, by Hephaestus.
The meaning of the passage in Strabo is, according to Lobeck, as follows : Some persons think that the Corybantes are the sons of Cronos, others that they are the sons of Zeus and Calliope, that they (the Corybantes) went to Sa­mothrace and were the same as the beings who were there called Cabeiri.
But as the doings of the Corybantes are generally known, whereas no­thing is known of the Samothracian Corybantes, those persons are obliged to have recourse to saying, that the doings of the latter Corybantes are kept secret or are mystic.
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 Abstract
In recent years Piet Schrijvers, James Jope, and Monica Gale have more extensively contrasted the poetics of Lucretius with the ethics of the Corybantes; these scholars suggest that Lucretius intends respectively to seduce, to frighten, or to entertain the reader with a parody of allegoresis.
I suggest that the cult of Cybele, when read in its epistemological context, is more explicitly a parable of un-Epicurean thought and language: the worshippers poignantly add their opinions to their direct perception of the goddess.
From these delusions the author distances himself and his expert reader with two parallel sets of speaking verbs, indicating that the Corybantes reveal their ignorance in the manner by which they designate external objects (611; 612; 616, echoed at 633; 634; 641).
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 DACTYLS, Greek Mythology Link.
The DACTYLS, sometimes identified with the CORYBANTES, were wizards and attendants of the Mother of the Gods (Rhea 1, wife of Cronos), and they lived in Phrygia about Mt. Ida. The Idaean DACTYLS
It is said that the first male DACTYLS were five in number, being the first to discover and work iron, as well as many other useful things for the purposes of life, and that their sisters were five in number.
It is suspected that both CURETES and CORYBANTES were offspring of the Idaean DACTYLS.
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 Religious Cults Associated with the Amazons: Chapter II: The Great Mother
Probably the tales of Corybantes and Curetes preserve the record of primitive armed dances of religious character, in honour of Phrygian Cybele and Cretan Rhea respectively.
The Corybantic rites of Samothrace show that Hecate of this place was closely akin to the goddess of the same name, who was worshipped with Zeus Panamerius at Lagina in Caria, the chief centre of her cult in Asia Minor.
This "Great Goddess" of Lemnos is Thracian Bendis, the fierce huntress of the two spears and the double worship, "of the heavens and of the earth," who received human sacrifice in her own country.
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 Corybantes
Corybantes is one of the topics in focus at Global Oneness.
Later they were made into three and four, as male and female, the four being the four kabiri usually enumerated; and finally restricted, as were also the kabiri, to two.
Atys is said to have established the rites and worship of Cybele, in Lydia.
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 AUTO DA FE - LoveToKnow Article on AUTO DA FE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
In Thebes, the race of Sparti were believed to have sprung from a field sown with dragons teeth.
The Phrygian Corybantes had been forced out of the hill-side like trees by Rhea, the great mother, and hence were called vpo4vis.
It is clear from Aeschylus (Prometheus, 44~) that primitive men were supposed to have at first lived like animals in caves and woods, till by the help of the gods and heroes they were raised to a stage of civilization.
47.1911encyclopedia.org /A/AU/AUTO_DA_FE.htm   (1126 words)

  
 Corybantes, Korybantes: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary on Corybantes, Korybantes
Corybantes Korybantes (Greek) Celebrants in the Mysteries of Rhea Cybele in Phrygia.
On account of the boisterous character of these public celebrations, the word Corybantic has become a modern synonym for roistering.
Definition of Corybantes, Korybantes is extracted from the home page of The Theosophical Society, International Headquarters, Pasadena, California.
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 THE LILIAD #48
The Corybantes, celebrants of the rites of Cybele, were named for Corybas.
She would also have been a first cousin twice removed from the Corybantes and from King Priam who, through his father, King Laomedon, via Dardanus, was Iasion's grandnephew.
It was mid-afternoon and the gaffers were testing the sound system while Sargon and the members of the housekeeping crew were setting up tables and stringing paper lanterns on swooping lengths of twined cable.
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 Mysteries of the Corybantes
We recommend this article: Mysteries of the Corybantes - 1, and also this: Mysteries of the Corybantes - 2.
Mysteries of the Corybantes is one of the topics in focus at Global Oneness.
These rites were held by the Corybantes in Phrygia during the spring equinox, in imperial Rome annually from April 4-10, and then in later times from March 15-27.
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 Orphic.html
It is difficult to thread one's way through the legends of the Builders and Titans, and their correspondences, the Curetes and Corybantes, or to find any clear distinctions between Heaven and Saturn and Zeus, in the 'battles fought for space'--dim legends of primary creation and nature-workings, and much else.
The reflection of this Guardian Triad is found on both the noëtic and supercosmic planes, in the triads (and also hebdomads) respectively of the Curetes and Corybantes.
The Curetes and Corybantes are frequently confused; they are the Guardians of the Creative Power, while it is yet too weak to defend itself.
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 Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, page 543   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Her mythical train was formed by the Corybantes, answering to the Curetes of the Cretan Rhea; these were said to accompany her over the wooded hills, with lighted torches and with wild dances, amid the resounding music of flutes and horns and drums and cymbals.
After these the priests of Cybele were also called Corybantes, and the festivals of the goddess were celebrated with similar orgies, in the frenzy of which the participators wounded each other or, like Attis, mutilated themselves.
Besides these there were begging priests, called Metrdgyrtce and Cybebi, who roamed from place to place, as inspired servants and prophets of the Great Mother.
www.ancientlibrary.com /seyffert/0546.html   (626 words)

  
 Gallus - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Gaius Cornelius Gallus (69 - 26 BC), first Roman governor of Egypt, writer of elegiac verse
gallus, a Roman term for one of the corybantes, followers of Cybele
The bird genus Gallus in the Pheasant family includes the wild form of the domesticated chicken Gallus gallus.
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 Footnotes to Volume 1 of Marx Engels Collected Works   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
65 Corybantes — priestesses of the goddess Cybele; Cabiri were priests of the ancient Greek divinities.
The Corybantes and Cabiri were identified in Asia Minor with the Curetes, priests of Rhea, the mother of Zeus.
According to mythology the Curetes clashed their weapons to drown the cries of the infant Zeus and thus saved him from his father, Cronus, who devoured his own children.
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 Alibris: Carl Levenson
In the dialogues of Plato, we find many references to the Corybantic rites.
These were rites of initiation performed in honor of the goddess Rhea.
However, as Carl Levenson argues in Socrates Among the Corybantes, Plato's dialogue entitled the Euthydemus contains more than a mere reference to the rites.
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 Cybele.html
Her priests, called the Galli, were eunuchs who had castrated themselves in her honor.
She had other priests, called Corybantes or Korybantes, who were transvestites who performed ecstatic dances and public rituals during her festivals.
Initiates of Cybele underwent a baptism with ox blood, for rebirth.
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 Find in a Library: Socrates among the Corybantes : being, reality, and the Gods
Socrates among the Corybantes : being, reality, and the Gods
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 Old and antique prints and maps: The Armed Dance of the Corybantes, Bells New Pantheon, 1789, Classical
Old and antique prints and maps: The Armed Dance of the Corybantes, Bells New Pantheon, 1789, Classical
The Armed Dance of the Corybantes, Bells New Pantheon, 1789.
"The Armed Dance of the Corybantes" copper engraving published in Bells New Pantheon, 1789.
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 DBNL . Karel van Mander, Het schilder-boeck
Ops baerde, en verborgh noch eenen soon, Neptunus gheheeten, die namaels was gewaent* Godt der Zee, en behiel sulcken naem, soo Cicero schrijft, om dat Neptunus is so veel gheseyt, als swemmer.
* Dit verstaende den jonghen Prince Iuppiter, quam zijn Vader en Moeder te hulp, met de verhaelde strijdtbaer Corybantes, oft Curetes, daer hy by opghevoedt was.
Doen daer nu eenen harden strijdt gheschiedde, verwon Iuppiter den Titans, en verloste zijn Vader en Moeder uyt der ghevangnis.
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 Amazon.ca: Books: The Corybantes: A Book of Strophaics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
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Atys, LWV 53: Entree des Corybantes no 1
Atys, LWV 53: Entree des Corybantes no 2
Atys, LWV 53: Que le malheur d'Atys afflige tout le monde
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 Mothergoddesses   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
This gave her the names Dindymen, Agdistis and Mater Idae.
To her followers belonged castrated priests, called Corybantes in Phrygia, on Crete they were called Kurets and in Rome 'Galloi'.
With her hair hanging down she searches the world, grieving for her lover Attis, whom is her son.
www.missgien.net /faith/cybele.html   (396 words)

  
 The Muse Thalia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
She is sometimes seen with a crown of ivy and a crook.
By Apollo, Thalia had the Corybantes, priests who castrated themselves in identification with the goddess, Cybele.
How light the strain when, decked in vernal bloom,
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 THE ORPHIC THEOGONY - Orphic Pantheon by G. R. S. Meade
It is difficult to thread one's way through the legends of the Builders and Titans, and their correspondences, the Curetes and Corybantes, or to find any clear distinctions between Heaven and
Now Iamblichus (De Mysteriis, III.ix) goes into the matter of the so-called Corybantic and
in number; and the religious institutions of the Cretans and the whole Grecian theology refer the pure and undefiled life to this order; for coron [whence Curetes and Corybantes] means nothing else than "pure".' The nurses and guards are, therefore, apparently
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 A Smaller Classical Dictionary of Biography, Mythology and Geography - rsica, Corsote, Cortona, Coruncanius, Corvinus ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
A Smaller Classical Dictionary of Biography, Mythology and Geography - rsica, Corsote, Cortona, Coruncanius, Corvinus Messala, Corvus M Valerius, Corybantes, Corycia
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 Crotalum Meaning and Definition
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(n.) A kind of castanet used by the Corybantes.
A, By, Castanet, Corybantes, Kind, Of, The, Used,
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 The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, Mélodies, Chansons and other Vocal Music
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Filles d'Athor, folles Bacchantes, Dansez en vous donnant la main, Suivez le choeur des Corybantes Au bruit des Crotales d'airain.
Art songs / Lieder, choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text, listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)
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