IacchusGreek God"Torch-Bearer"

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Titles & Epithets

Torch-BearerLeader of the Mysteries

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mysteriesprocessionecstasy

Symbols

torchprocession

Description

Deity of the Eleusinian Mysteries, often identified with or as an aspect of Dionysus. He led the torchlit procession from Athens to Eleusis, crying 'Iacchos!' His ecstatic worship connected him to Dionysian rites.

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