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Korybantes

The '''Korybantes''', called the '''Kurbantes''' in Phrygia, were the crested dancers who worshipped the Phrygian goddess Cybele with drumming and dancing. The '''Kuretes''' were the nine dancers who venerate Rhea (mythology)|Rhea, the Crete|Cretan counterpart of Cybele. 's ''A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities|Dictionary of Antiquities'' (SALTATIO article)]]These male dancers in armor, kept time to a drum and the rhythmic stamping of their feet. Dance, according to Greek thought, was one of the civilizing activities, like wine-making or music. The dance in armor (the "pyrrhic dance" or ''pyrriche'') was a male coming-of-age initiation ritual linked to a warrior victory celebration. The wild ecstasy of their cult can be compared to the female Maenads who followed Dionysus. Ovid in ''Metamorphoses'' says they were born from rainwater, Ouranos fertilizing Gaia (mythology)|Gaia, which might connect them with the Pelasgian Hyades (mythology)|Hyades. The Phrygian Korybantes were often confused with other ecstatic male confraternities, such as the Idaean Dactyl (mythology)|Dactyls or the Cretan Kouretes, spirit-youths (''kouroi'') who acted as guardians of the infant Zeus. In the Greek telling of Zeus' birth, the Kouretes' ritual clashing spears and shields were interpreted as intended to drown out the infant god's cries, and prevent his discovery by his father Cronus. The French classicist Henri Jeanmaire has convincingly shown that both the Kouretes and Cretan Zeus (called "the greatest ''kouros''" in Cretan hymns) were intimately connected with the transition of young men into manhood in Cretan cities (in ''Couroi et Courètes: essai sur l'éducation spartiate et sur les rites d'adolescence dans l'antiquité hellénique,'' Lille, 1939). Korybantes or Kouretes also presided over the infancy of Dionysus, another god who was born as a babe, and of Zagreus, a Cretan child of Zeus. There are several "tribes" of Korybantes like the Kabeiroi, the Korybantes Euboioi, the Korybantes Samothrakioi e.t.c. Well known Korybantes are Hoplodamos and his Gigantes, and the Kourete-Titan (mythology)|Titan Anytos. Alternatives: '''Corybants''' (older English texts), '''Koryvandes''' (modern Greek transliteration).

External links

  • http://www.theoi.com/Ouranos/Kouretes.html
  • http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/2000/2000-03-17.html



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