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CURETES and Coribantus founded Knossos about this time. They invented an armed dance, beating out time and chanting to each other.

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New Gemini, Kouretes.

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Zagreus

ZEUS SECRETLY begot his son Zagreus on Persephone, before she was taken to the Underworld by her uncle Hades. He set Rhea’s sons, the Cretan Curetes or, some say, the Corybantes, to guard his cradle in the Idean Cave, where they leaped about him, clashing their weapons, as they had leaped about Zeus himself at Dicte. But the Titans, Zeus’ enemies, whitening themselves with gypsum until they were unrecognisable, waited until the Curetes slept. At midnight they lured Zagreus away, by offering him such childish toys as a cone, a bull-roarer, golden apples, a mirror, a knuckle-bone, and a tuft of wool. (Zagreus, The Greek Myths by Robert Graves, pp. 118-120)

Having lured the infant away from the safety of his cave and the protection of the Curetes, the vengeful Titans set about the boy. Despite Zagreus valiantly transforming into a variety of beasts to defend himself, the Titans were too numerous and too strong: they eventually overpowered Zagreus, tore him limb from limb and devoured his flesh. Athene succeeded in rescuing the boy’s heart from this carnage, enclosed it within a gypsum figure, into which she breathed immortal life. A furious Zeus later tracked the Titans down one by one, destroying them with his thunderbolts.

Graves maintains this gruesome tale memorises the annual sacrifice of a boy-king on Crete who was dismembered and eaten raw, the Titans’ gifts to Zagreus being emblematic of the seasons of the year. The tradition was continued by the Orphics, who sacrificed a calf rather than a child.

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THE CURETES

In Greek mythology, the Curetes, also known as the Dactyls, were rustic daimones (spirits) appointed by Rhea to guard the infant god Zeus in a cave on Mount Ida in Crete. To keep the boy hidden from his cannibalistic father Cronus, they drowned out his cries with a frenzied dance of clashing spear and shield. The Curetes were gods of the wild mountainside, and the first armoured warriors. X

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Terracotta Campana relief, three Curetes with swords and shields, protecting the infant Zeus

Roman, 50 BC - 100 AD

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I organised a NYE gathering but super late with not a lot of people AND NOW NOONE IS GOING TO COME I FEEL AWFUL Like barely anyone's even said no just Nothing Like they feel awkward about even being invited Ahhhhhhhh Still My boy hazza said he'd come over ;))

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