Corybantes. According to the Greek mythology, the Korybantes were the armed and crested dancers who worshipped the Phrygian goddess Cybele with drumming and dancing.
They are also called the Kurbantes in Phrygia. The conventional English equivalent is Corybants.
The name Korybantes is of uncertain etymology. Edzard Johan Furnée and R. S. P. Beekes have suggested a Pre-Greek origin.
Others refer the name to the Macedonian version of crown, top, mountain peak, explaining their association with mountains, particularly Olympus. The Korybantes were the offspring of Apollo and Muse Thalia or Rhytia.
In some accounts, they were described as the children of Athena and Helios; further, some call the Corybantes sons of Cronus, but others say that they were sons of Zeus and Muse Calliope. The Kuretes or Kouretes were nine dancers who venerate Rhea, the Cretan counterpart of Cybele. A fragment from Strabo's Book VII gives a sense of the roughly analogous character of these male confraternities, and the confusion rampant among those not initiated: Many assert that the gods worshipped in Samothrace as well as the Kurbantes and the Korybantes and in like manner the Kouretes and the Idaean Daktyls are the same as the Kabeiroi, but as to the Kabeiroi they are unable to tell who they are. These armored male dancers kept time to a drum and the rhythmic stamping of their feet. Dance, according to Greek though
They are also called the Kurbantes in Phrygia. The conventional English equivalent is Corybants.
The name Korybantes is of uncertain etymology. Edzard Johan Furnée and R. S. P. Beekes have suggested a Pre-Greek origin.
Others refer the name to the Macedonian version of crown, top, mountain peak, explaining their association with mountains, particularly Olympus. The Korybantes were the offspring of Apollo and Muse Thalia or Rhytia.
In some accounts, they were described as the children of Athena and Helios; further, some call the Corybantes sons of Cronus, but others say that they were sons of Zeus and Muse Calliope. The Kuretes or Kouretes were nine dancers who venerate Rhea, the Cretan counterpart of Cybele. A fragment from Strabo's Book VII gives a sense of the roughly analogous character of these male confraternities, and the confusion rampant among those not initiated: Many assert that the gods worshipped in Samothrace as well as the Kurbantes and the Korybantes and in like manner the Kouretes and the Idaean Daktyls are the same as the Kabeiroi, but as to the Kabeiroi they are unable to tell who they are. These armored male dancers kept time to a drum and the rhythmic stamping of their feet. Dance, according to Greek though
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