<a href="https://www.patreon.com/GnosticInformant" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://www.patreon.com/GnosticInformant</a><br />Please Consider joining my Patreon to help finding scholars to bring on. Any amount helps me. Thank you existing Patrons.<br /><br /><a href="https://gnosticinformant--pursuit4knowledge.thrivecart.com/mysterycults/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://gnosticinformant--pursuit4knowledge.thrivecart.com/mysterycults/</a><br />The Course for Mystery Cults by Professor Litwa is NOW AVAILABLE!!! <br /><br />IASION was an agricultural hero and the springtime consort of Demeter in the Samothracian Mysteries.<br /><br />Iasion lay with the goddess in a thrice-ploughed field during the wedding celebrations of Kadmos (Cadmus) and Harmonia on the island of Samothrake. When Zeus learned of the affair he slew Iasion with a thunderbolt. According to some Iasion and the agricultural hero Triptolemos were afterwards placed amongst the stars as the constellation Gemini (the Heavenly Twins).<br /><br />Iasion was perhaps equated with Attis, the dying consort of the Phrygian goddess Kybele (Cybele), and Karmanor (Carmanor), Demeter's consort on the island of Krete (Crete). Hesiod appears to equate the two when he places Iasion in Krete. The meaning of the name Iasion is obscure but it may connected with the Greek word for bindweed, a small white-flowering vine commonly found growing in wheat fields entwined around the grain-stalks.<br /><br />IASION (Iasiôn), also called Iasius, was, according to some, a son of Zeus and Electra, the daughter of Atlas, and a brother of Dardanus (Apollod. iii. 12. § 1; Serv. ad Aen. i. 384; Hes. Theog. 970; Ov. Amor. iii. 10, 25); but others called him a son of Corythus and Electra, of Zeus and the nymph Hemera, or of Ilithyius, or of Minos and the nymph Pyronia. (Schol. ad Theocrit. iii. 30; Serv. ad Aen. iii. 167; Eustath. ad Hom p. 1528; Hygin. Fab. 270.) At the wedding of his sister Harmonia, Demeter fell in love with him, and in a thrice-ploughed field (tripolos) she became by him the mother of Pluton or Plutus in Crete, in consequence of which Zeus killed him with a flash of lightning. Iasion was slain by Dardanus, and according to Hyginus (Fab. 250) he was killed by his own horses, whereas others represent him as living to an advanced age as the husband of Demeter. (Ov. Met. ix. 421, &c.) In some traditions Eetion is mentioned as the only brother of Dardanus (Schol. ad Apollon. Rhod. i. 916; Tzetz. ad Lycoph. 219), whence some critics have inferred that Iasion and Eetion are only two names for the same person. A further tradition states that Iasion and Dardanus, being driven from their home by a flood, went from Italy, Crete, or Arcadia, to Samothrace, whither he carried the Palladium, and where Zeus himself instructed him in the mysteries of Demeter.<br /><br />Homer, Odyssey 5. 125 ff (trans. Shewring) (Greek epic C8th B.C.) :<br />"[Hermes commands Kalypso (Calypso) to release Odysseus :] Kalypso shuddered, and her words came forth in rapid flight : ‘You are merciless, you gods, resentful beyond all other beings; you are jealous if without disguise a goddess makes a man her bedfellow, her beloved husband . . . So it was when Demeter of the braided tresses followed her heart and lay in love with Iasion in the triple-furrowed field; Zeus was aware of it soon enough and hurled the bright thunderbolt and killed him.’"<br />[N.B. the cutting of three furrows was part of fertility rites performed to inaugurate the new agricultural year.]<br /><br />Hesiod, Theogony (Greek epic C8th or C7th B.C.) :<br />"Demeter, bright goddess, was joined in sweet love with the hero Iasion in a thrice-ploughed fallow in the rich land of Krete (Crete), and bare Ploutos (Plutus, Wealth), a kindly god who goes everywhere over land and the sea's wide back, and him who finds him and into whose hands he comes he makes rich, bestowing great wealth upon him."<br /><br />Clement, Exhortation to the Greeks 2. 12 (trans. Butterworth) (Greek Christian writer C2nd A.D.) :<br />"[An early Christian critique of the pagan Mysteries :] A curse then upon the man who started this deception for mankind, whether it be Dardanos, who introduced the Mysteria for of the Meter Theon (Mother of the Gods); or Eetion [i.e. Iasion], who founded the Samothracian orgies and rites (orgia, teletas)."<br /><br />Pseudo-Hyginus, Fabulae 250 (trans. Grant) (Roman mythographer C2nd A.D.) :<br />"Teams [of horses] which destroyed their drivers . . . Horses destroyed Iasion, son of Jove [Zeus] by Electra, daughter of Atlas." [N.B. Presumably Iasion was killed when Zeus cast his lightning bolt, causing his horses to bolt in panic and throwing him from the chariot.]<br /><br />Pseudo-Hyginus, Fabulae 270 :<br />"Those who were most handsome. Iasion, son of Ilithius, whom Ceres [Demeter] is said to have loved."<br /><br />Ovid, Metamorphoses 9. 421 ff (trans. Melville) (Roman epic C1st B.C. to C1st A.D.) :<br />"A rumbling argument arose in heaven, the gods all grumbling why others should not be able to grant such gifts [the restoration of youth to the elderly, the sole prerogative of the goddess Hebe]. Aurora [Eos] grumbled at her husband's [Tithonos'] age, and gentle Ceres [Demeter] that Iasion was going grey."<br /><br />#iasios #iasion #greekmythology<br />...<br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ixe0l246JqE" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ixe0l246JqE</a>