Sabazios
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Sabazios is the nomadic horseman and sky father god of the Phrygians and Thracians. In Indo-European languages, such as Phrygian, the '-zios' element in his name derives from dyeus, the common precursor of 'deus' (god) and Zeus. Though the Greeks interpreted Phrygian Sabazios with both Zeus and Dionysus, representations of him, even into Roman times, show him always on horseback, as a nomadic horseman god, wielding his characteristic staff of power.It seems likely that the migrating Phrygians brought Sabazios with them when they settled in Anatolia in the early first millennium BCE, and that the god's origins are to be looked for in Macedonia and western Thrace. The Macedonians remained noted horsemen, horse-breeders and horse-worshippers up to the time of Philip II, whose name signifies lover of horses.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:6130944306
ISBN13:9786130944308
Release Date:July 2010
Publisher:AV Akademikerverlag GmbH & Co. KG
Weight:0.44 lbs.
Dimensions:0.3" x 8.7" x 5.9"
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