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	Galatia. Who is Galatia? What is Galatia? Where is Galatia? Definition of Galatia. Meaning of Galatia.
		As so often happens in cases of invasion, three tribes of Gauls crossed over from Thrace to Asia Minor at the express invitation of Nicomedes I of Bithynia, who required help in a dynastic struggle against his brother.
		The three Gaulish tribes were settled where they afterwards remained, the Tectosages round Ancyra, the Tolistobogii round Pessinus, sacred to Cybele, and the Trocmi round Tavium.
		The local population of Cappadocians were left in control of the towns and most of the land, paying tithes to their new overlords, who formed a military aristocracy and kept aloof in fortified farmsteads, surrounded by their bands.
	www.knowledgerush.com /kr/encyclopedia/Galatia (789 words)

	Grecian mythology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Certain semi-fabulous tribes of central Asia, workers in metals, kept secret the mysteries of their craft, and were wont to indulge in wild orgies and festivities, which served to inspire with awe the uninitiated.
		Among certain tribes of the west coast of equatorial Africa the flsmith officiates also as priest or medicine-man, and is a chief personage in the community, which often embraces several adjacent villages.
		In the fifteenth century a savage tribe known as the Wends had a practice of placing a horse's head in the crib or manger to counteract the influence of evil spirits, and to prevent their horses from being ridden by the Night Hag.
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	Geographia: Mainland Greece
		Aetolus fled to the land of the Curetes, the warlike tribes in Aetolia.
		Magnesia occupied the rugged coast in Thessaly, from the north at mouth of the river Peneius to the south, narrow strip of land that separate the Pagasaean Gulf from the Thracian Sea.
		Some of these tribes were known to the Greeks as the Getae, the Edonians, the Cicones, and the Bistones (who lived on the Chersonese).
	www.timelessmyths.com /classical/mainland.html (2734 words)

	The History of Ancient Greece (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Such, then, are the tribes of the Greeks, and such in general terms is their ethnographical division.
		She gave him to the Curetes and to the nymphs Adrastia and Ida, daughters of Melisseus, to nurse.
		When the Phoenician army under Cadmus invaded the land these tribes were defeated; the Hyantes fled from the land when night came, but the Aones begged for mercy, and were allowed by Cadmus to remain and unite with the Phoenicians.
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	Curetes (tribe) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This article discusses the legendary tribe of the Curetes.
		529 ff) mentions the Curetes as a legendary people who took part in the quarrel over the Calydonian boar.
		Antiquity identified the Curetes as either Aetolians or Acarnanians (Strabo 462, 26), A stock in Chalcis in Euboea also represented them.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Curetes_(tribe) (98 words)

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		The tribe returned to some power around 300 B.C., but were defeated and their land settled by the Romans, who in turn romanized the Aequi.
		Agathyrsi A tribe from Scythia, an area north of the Black Sea; the Scythian tribes were nomadic and roamed a vast region from central eastern Europe into Asia.
		Chalybes A tribe on the south coast of the Black Sea, famous for their work in iron, sometimes considered the inventors of this craft.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /~jfarrell/temp/vp/july31/names.all.txt (22781 words)

	''Fading Light'', By: Aeronwy
		The plain truth was that the Curetes never needed more than one or two replacements a year, so Bia and Kratos could afford the highest mortality rate among the recruits.
		Traditionally the final selection whenever a new Curete was needed, was made in a grand mêlée, a deadly tournament, in which all year's survivors, except for the lucky last man standing perished anyway.
		There was no place for individuality in the faceless corps of the Curetes, there was no place for one man singled out from the rest of the troop, it was disturbing to the necessary anonymity of this strict regime.
	www.elysian-star.com /Greek/Fading2.html (3889 words)

	EUBOEA - LoveToKnow Article on EUBOEA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Like most of the Greek islands, Euboea was originally known under other names, such as Macris and Doliche from its shape, and Ellopia and Abantis from the tribes inhabiting it.
		The races by which it was occupied at an early period were different in the three districts, into which, as we have seen, it was naturally divided.
		The southern part was occupied by the Dryopes, part of which tribe, after having been expelled from their original seats in the south of Thessaly by the Dorians, migrated to this island, and established themselves in the three cities of Karystos, Dystos and Styra.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /E/EU/EUBOEA.htm (3347 words)

	Greek Mythology: ENCYCLOPEDIA H-K (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Hoplodamus (Hoplodamos) The leader of the Curetes or Gigantes who proctected Rhea from the rage of Cronus after she had hidden away their child Zeus.
		Hyperborean Giants (Gigantes Hyperboreioi) Three giant sons of the North Wind who were the chief priests of the virtuous Hyperborean tribe.
		Hyperboreans (Hyperboreoi) A tribe of blessed men who dwelt in a land of eternal spring beyond the wintry home of the North Wind.
	www.theoi.com /HIJK.htm (1827 words)

	Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, page 614 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		They also had to look after the levying and distribution of recruits, and they were thus concerned in the drawing up of the register of those citizens who were liable to serve.
		They are said to have been the earliest workers in metal, and to have made images of the gods, together with the siclcle of CrSnus and the trident of Pfiseidon.
		Poseidon is said to have been entrusted to them by Rhea to be brought up, just as Zeus was to the Curetes of Crete.
	www.ancientlibrary.com /seyffert/0617.html (862 words)

	Sex, Gods and Gay People Underlying The Myths - Inner Work With Paul Chirumbolo
		The Celts were a tribe of nomadic hunters mixed and blended on the one hand from Cro-Magnon European and other pre-historic North African and southeast Asian peoples, with Eskimos on the other - a veritable melting pot.
		On the Island of Crete, there lived the CURETES or CUROS, in later times called the KUROI, and they were the mystical performers of a ritual dance in worship of a young vegetation god.
		Their sphere thus included Southern Europe, the Mediterranean Islands, and North Africa, a unified tribe with the most ancient of religions, a worship which continued to carry the imprint of the much older focus on the Great Mother and the homosexual cults of the Horned Gods.
	www.guidancetochangeyourlife.com /underlyingthemyths.html (4929 words)

	CURETON - LoveToKnow Article on CURETON
		After his death Dr W. Wright edited with a preface the Ancient Syriac Documents relative to the earliest Establishment of Christianity ifl Edessa and the neighboring Countries, from the Year of our Lords Ascension to the beginning of the Fourth Century; discovered, edited and annotated by the late W. Cureton.
		CURETUS, a tribe of South American Indians, inhabiting the country between the rivers of Japura and Lauphs, northwestern Brazil.
		They are short but sturdy, wear their halt long, and paint their bodies.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /C/CU/CURETON.htm (377 words)

	Chapter Calydon <i>to</i> Camilla of C by Brewer's Readers Handbook
		The boar being killed, a dispute arose respecting the head, and this led to a war between the Curetês and Calydonians.
		A similar tale is told of Theseus, who vanquished and killed the gigantic sow which ravaged the territory of Krommyon, near Corinth.
		Girt by half the tribes of Britain, near the colony Camulodine.
	www.bibliomania.com /2/3/174/1113/14592/1.html (410 words)

	The Golden Bough/Dionysus - Wikibooks
		His ecstatic worship, characterised by wild dances, thrilling music, and tipsy excess, appears to have originated among the rude tribes of Thrace, who were notoriously addicted to drunkenness.
		Its mystic doctrines and extravagant rites were essentially foreign to the clear intelligence and sober temperament of the Greek race.
		The guards referred to are the mythical Curetes who danced a war-dance round the infant Dionysus, as they are said to have done round the infant Zeus.
	en.wikibooks.org /wiki/The_Golden_Bough/Dionysus (2971 words)

	Post Verbum Retroduction et Annotatum by Tiglathpilesar Jones, Ph.T. for Rhyx Hapax by Christopher Lane
		Curetes, of the Mystic cults of Crete, the holders of the Antidotes, and oldest inhabitants of
		Herodotus (Chapter 4) describes Libyan tribes descended from people of Aegean origin, and tradition holds that the Libyan city of Cyrene (Cyrenaica) was founded in about 1600 B.C. by refugees from the Volcanic Island of Thera, in the heart of the Aegean Sea.
		When the San Andreas fault moved the Earth, tax revenuers from the U.S. government kicked out the tribe that had squatted illegally on federal land for so many profitable years, and the town ceased to exist, although a research center is still there funded by the University of California.
	home1.gte.net /zzyzlane/write/poetry/rhapax06.html (11388 words)

	Wolf Warriors: the Romans, the Dacians and the Vlachs; Dracula and Hitler
		Their neighbours to the north-west were the Germanic tribes, to the north-east the Scythians, to the west the Celts, in Pannonia and to the south-west of the Danube the Illyrians, and to the south the Greeks.
		Of them, the most known is the tribe called Apuli/Apulii, who lived into the center of Transylvania and had their capital at Apoulon (today Piatra Craivii).
		These tribes, who spoke Oscan and were probably an offshoot of the Sabini, apparently referred to themselves not as Samnite but by the Oscan form of the word, which appears in Latin as Sabine.
	www.angelfire.com /realm/vlachs (15588 words)

	[Ancient Source] Strabon: Geography (Focus: Illyria) - www.ezboard.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		[3] The tribes of the Pannonii are: the Breuci, the Andisetii, the Ditiones, the Peirustae, the Mazaei, and the Daesitiatae, whose leader is26 Bato,27 and also other small tribes of less significance which extend as far as Dalmatia and, as one goes south, almost as far as the land of the Ardiaei.
		But the Illyrian tribes which are near the southern part of the mountainous country and those which are above the Ionian Gulf are intermingled with these peoples; for above Epidamnus and Apollonia as far as the Ceraunian Mountains dwell the Bylliones, the Taulantii, the Parthini, and the Brygi.
		Paeonia is on the east of these tribes and on the west of the Thracian mountains, but it is situated on the north of the Macedonians; and, by the road that runs through the city Gortynium94 and Stobi,95 it affords a passage to.
	pub18.ezboard.com /fbalkansillyriaforum.showMessage?topicID=481.topic (11090 words)

	ZEUGMA Tarihçesi
		The Cabiri are identified with the Dioscuri, the Curetes, Corybantes, and with the Roman Penates.
		A mythical tribe who lived at the end of the world in a place of mists and darkness, where the sun never arrived.
		Rhea was frightened that Cronus would hear him crying so she had the Curetes wait outside the mountain and bang their shields together, a sound which drowned out all others.
	www.zeugmaweb.com /zeugma/english/dictionary-c.htm (5640 words)

	Zeus, Olympia and Dodona (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Rhea repaired to Crete, when she was big with Zeus, and brought him forth in a cave of Dicte.
		Rhea gave Zeus to the Curetes and to the Nymphs to nurse.
		The cult of Zeus and the sacred oak tree was brought to Dodona by the Selloi, a branch of the Thesprotian tribe, between the 19th and 14th centuries B.C. and soon became the prevalent cult of the sanctuary.
	hyper.vcsun.org /HyperNews/jhartzog/get/classics315/424.html (661 words)

	Business Software Review : Article 'Curette' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The term Curetes may refer to: the dancing attrendants of Rhea, also known as Korybantes the early Hellenic tribe: Curetes Template:Disambig
		The original source for this list was the U.S. National Cancer Institute's public domain Dictionary of Cancer Terms.
		Template:Stub In surgery, the use of a curette to remove tissue by scraping or scooping.
	www.business-software-review.org /DisplayArticle395169.html (394 words)

	English Phrase Search (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		For here is the mythical scene of the birth, and of the nurse Ortygia, and of the holy place where the birth took place, and of the olive tree near by, where the goddess is said first to have taken a rest after she was relieved from her travail.
		Solmissus, where, it is said, the Curetes stationed themselves, and with the din of their arms frightened Hera out of her wits when she was jealously spying on Leto, and when they helped Leto to conceal from Hera the birth of her children.
		There are several temples in the place, some ancient and others built in later times; and in the ancient temples are many ancient wooden images, but in those of later times there are works of Scopas; for example, Leto holding a sceptre and Ortygia standing beside her with a child in each arm.
	www.abu.nb.ca /courses/NTIntro/images/StraboEph2.htm (11008 words)

	Strabo Geography - Musical Worship Pagan Background
		the Curetes withdrew to what is now called Acarnania, whereas the Aetolians came back with Epeians and founded the earliest of the cities of Aetolia, and in the tenth generation after that Elis was settled by Oxylus the son of Haemon, who had crossed over from Aetolia.
		But since also the historians, because of the identity of name of the Curetes, have classed together things that are unlike, neither should I myself shrink from discussing them at greater length, by way of digression, adding such account of their physical habits as is appropriate to history.
		O thou hiding-bower (Where Zeus was hid) of the Curetes, and sacred haunts of Crete that gave birth to Zeus,
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	Croatia Destination Guide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The Croatian name was carried, apart from the Croatian people of today, by another two Slavic tribes: the White Croats in Poland, along the upper course of the Visla river, west of the San, with Krakow being their center, and by a tribe in the north-eastern part of the Czech Republic.
		The traces of the name Croat, preserved in local names, witness that smaller groups of Croats were mixed with other Slavic tribes; Slovenians, Slovakians, the Lusatian Sorbs, probably in Zeta, Macedonia, even in Greece.
		From the beginning of the 20th century, after Pogodin drew attention to the archon Horathos or Horathos from the 2nd/3rd c.
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	Dictionary: Thoosa to Zorus, Greek Mythology Link.
		He was killed in battle against the Curetes, or else he was slain by his own father for leaping over the city ditch, a hated gesture that also led to the death of Remus 1, brother of Romulus [Apd.1.8.1; Hes.CWE.98; Lib.Met.2].
		A priest who came from the Marruvian tribe (a tribe of Latium).
		He was an ally of Turnus, the man who opposed Aeneas in Italy, and had the talent of hypnotizing snakes [Vir.Aen.7.752].
	homepage.mac.com /cparada/GML/001ShortEntries/SEThoosa.html (4688 words)

	Greek Mythology: ORNITHES AREIOI Arrow-Shooting Birds of Ares (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		"They [the Argonauts] left these [the tribe called Mossynoekoi] behind them.
		And now a day of rowing (since the light wind dropped in the night) had brought them almost abreast of Ares’ Isle, when they suddenly beheld the War-God’s birds, which haunt the island, darting through the air.
		When the Argonauts had come to the island of Dia (Divine), and the birds were wounding them, using their feathers as arrows, they were not able to cope with the great numbers of birds.
	www.theoi.com /Ther/OrnithesAreioi.html (791 words)

	www.dalmacija.net - Dalmatia ::: General Information / Croatian History
		The Croatian name was carried, apart from the Croatian people of today, by another two slavic tribes: the White Croats in Poland, along the upper course of the Visla river, west of the San, with
		Krakow being their centre, and by a tribe in the north/eastern part of the Chech Republic.
		From the beginning of the 20th century, after Pogodin drew attention to the archon Horóathos or Hurúathos from the 2nd/3rd c.
	www.dalmacija.net /site/articles/articleshow.php?id=33 (1740 words)

	Calydon
		Meleagrus was on the side of the Ætolians and, so long as he fought with them, they had the advantage.
		Afraid of the possible consequences of such a curse, Meleagrus withdrew from the fight and immediately, the Curetes took the advantage and the Ætolians were forced to retreat within the walls of Calydon.
		One after the other, the elders of the city, the priests, his father and his mother, his dearest friends, begged in vain Meleagrus to return to the fight.
	plato-dialogues.org /tools/loc/calydon.htm (1445 words)

	Glossary and Index for the Iliad (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Abii: a tribe from the north of Hellas: Zeus looks away from battle to their land (13.8).
		Aethrae: daughter of Pittheus, a servant attending on Helen: goes with her to the walls of Troy (3.158).
		Curetes: people living in Aetolia: their battle with Aetolians over Calydon (9.662).
	www.toreigninhell.com /homer/iliad_index.htm (6091 words)

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		It was sent by Artemis as a punishment for King Oeneus, who had neglected to sacrifice to her.
		A dispute over its head led to a war with the neighboring tribe of Curetes.
		Cephalopods like modern nautiluses and squids, they are known from the fossilized shells, which were straight or coiled, and share their name with the tribe descended from Lot that warred with the Moabites in the Bible.
	quizbowl.stanford.edu /archive/terrapin95/uva-b.txt (3026 words)

	Gods of Egypt - Atlantis Rising
		No tribe or settlement was able to survive their passing.
		Centaurs (1) (Kentauroi) A tribe of wild and dangerous creatures who had the upper torsos of men and the bodies of horsess.
		The Curetes helped hide the baby Zeus from Cronus by dancing about and clashing their spears and shields to drown out his cries.
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