Eubuleus

Eubuleus (Greek Εὐβουλεύς " good advisors" ) is a closely linked with the Mysteries of Eleusis figure of Greek mythology, the outlines of which remain unclear. His name appears in various spellings ( Eubuleus, Euboulos, Eubouleos and Eubolos ) both in ancient texts as well as on the so-called Orphic gold leaves, although it is not clear whether the different names refer to different forms or not. This is already addressed in the Orphic hymn:

Elsewhere in the Orphic hymns, however, Eubulus appears as epithet of Hades and in Diodorus as an epithet of Zeus. Cicero finally called Eubuleus next Tritopatreus and Dionysus as one of the first Dioscuri, children of the oldest Jupiter and Proserpina.

But Eubulus is also a son of Demeter his and his father the Karme, Mother of Britomartis. According to Pausanias, on the other hand he is a son of Karmenor, the father of the above-mentioned Karme. Elsewhere in Pausanias is Trochilos, from Argos fled to Eleusis priest there to the Father of Eubuleus and Triptolemus. And immediately afterwards Pausanias gives another Orphic tradition again, after Eubuleus and Triptolemus were sons of Dysaules.

To the extent, all of these epicleses and genealogies no direct reference to the cult happening in Eleusis. A possible relationship appears in a myth, in which the origin of the practiced at the Thesmophoria cult rite of throwing pigs into a pit and offer up the remains later, is attributed to a swineherd named Eubuleus whose herd in the abduction of Persephone part was pulled down when Hades opened the pit of the underworld for his car.

In the iconography Eubuleus appears as a torch -bearing boy with curly hair, such as on the so-called Regina vasorum, a hydria of the 4th century with representations eleusinischer deities. The attributed to Praxiteles, as the "head of the Eubuleus " famous marble sculpture of the fourth century was indeed found in Plutonion of Eleusis, today it is believed, however, that it represents Alexander the Great.