§ 3.) At the celebration ofthe great Eleusinian mysteries in honour of Demeter, Persephone, and Iacchus, the statue of the last divinity, carrying a torch and adorned with a myrtle wreath, was carried on the sixth day of the festival (the 20th of Boedromion) from the temple of Demeter across the Thriasian plain to Eleusis, accom panied by a numerous and riotous procession of the initiated, who sang the Iacchus, carried mystic baskets, and danced amid the sounds of cymbals and trumpets. c.) At Athens a statue of Iacchus, bearing a torch in his hand, was seen by the side of those of Demeter and Cora. 15.) He is also identified with the infernal Zagreus, the son of Zeus and Persephone. 326), it is clear that the ancients distinguished Iacchus, the son of Zeus and Demeter, from the Theban Bacchus (Dionysus), the son of Zeus and Semele, nay, in some traditions Iacchus is called a son of Bacchus, but in others the two are confounded and identified. 51, 11.) His name was derived from the boisterous festive song which is likewise called Iacchus. The Phrygian Bacchus was looked upon in the Eleusinian mysteries as a child, and as such he is described as the son of Demeter (Deo or Calligeneia) and Zeus, and as the brother of Cora, that is, the male Cora or Corus. IACCHUS (Iakchos), the solemn name of the mystic Bacchus at Athens and Eleusis. Their Iakkhos also had a female aspect named Misa and the two were equated with the bi-gendered creator-god Phanes. The Orphics identified him with the Eleusinian demi-gods Dysaules and Eubouleus. Iakkhos was sometimes equated with the god Dionysos in the same way that the Eleusinian Hekate was paired with Artemis. Iakkhos was depicted as a young man holding the twin torches of the Mysteries, usually in the company of Demeter, Persephone, Hekate and other Eleusinian gods. He was the god of the ritual cry of joy " iakhe" of the initiates' procession. IAKKHOS (Iacchus) was a daimon attendant of the goddess Demeter and the leader-in-chief of the Eleusinian Mysteries. Ritual Cry "iakkhe" Iacchus and Hecate, Athenian red-figure pelike C4th B.C., State Hermitage Museum
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