- Thyia
According to
Hesiod 's Eoiae orCatalogue of Women , Thyia (Greek: Θυία) was the daughter ofDeucalion andPyrrha and mother of Magnes andMakednos byZeus . In theDelphic tradition, Thyia was also thenaiad of a spring onMount Parnassos inPhocis (central Greece), daughter of the river god Cephissus. Her shrine was the site for the gathering of theThyiades (women who celebranted in the orgies of the godDionysos ). She was said to have been the first to have sacrificed to Dionysus, and to have celebrated orgies in his honour. Hence theAttic women, who every year went to Mount Parnassus to celebrate the Dionysiac orgies with the Delphian Thyiades, received themselves the name of Thyades or Thyiades.She was said to have been loved by
Apollo and bore himDelphos , the eponymous founder of townDelphi , beside the oracular shrine. She was also closely associated with the propheticCastalian Spring , from which she was sometimes said to have been born. Thyia was also related toCastalia , the nymph of the spring, Melaena, an alternative mother for Delphos, and theCorycian nymphs , naiades of the springs of the holyCorycian Cave .Thyia was a name derived from the
ancient Greek verb "θύω" meaning "perfume" or "sacrifice". The name was applied to a type of fragrant tree called aThuja .References
* [http://www.theoi.com/Nymphe/NympheThyia.html Theoi Project - Nymphe Thyia]
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