Cyamites

Cyami'tes

(Κυαμίτης), the hero of beans, a mysterious being, who had a small sanctuary on the road from Athens to Eleusis. No particulars are known about him, but Pausanias (1.37.3) says, that those who were initiated in the mysteries or had read the so-called Orphica would understand the nature of the hero. [L.S]

Cyamites Cyamites, temple of

• Paus. 1.37.4