Pamisos (mythology)
Pamisus ( Greek Πάμισος ) is in Greek mythology the god of the river Pamisus in Messinia .
Pamisos is only documented in literature by Pausanias , who reports that the Messenian kings had to offer him an annual sacrifice. The Messenian king Sybotas is considered to be the founder of the cult . In addition, according to Pausanias, young children were healed at the springs of Pamisus.
His sanctuary at the source of the river in Agios Floros was excavated by Swedish archaeologist Natan Valmin in the 1930s . Dedication inscriptions found here testify that Pamisus was worshiped, one of the pond reliefs from the 2nd century BC. Chr. Depicts him as a bull.
literature
- Otto Höfer : Pamisos . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 3.1, Leipzig 1902, column 1345 ( digitized version ).
- Carina Weiss: Pamisos . In: Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (LIMC). Volume VII, Zurich / Munich 1994, pp. 128-129.