Korybantes

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Corybantes (Greek Κορύβαντες ) are vegetation demons and orgiastic ritual dancers accompanying the goddess Cybele ( in the Roman Empire and Magna Mater ). They come from Greek mythology and are on the Anatolian kingdom of the Indo-European Phrygians ( there Berekyndai ) due. So also the priest of the 3rd and 4th century BC were called later, the homage of Cybele with weapons dances, wild music, drinking and orgiastic debauchery. Korybantische dances were danced among others, the Gymnopaedien.