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Übersetzung für 'Zalmoxis' von Englisch nach Deutsch

Zalmoxis [god of the Getae]

Zalmoxis {m}hist.relig.spec.

• Zalmoxis {m} = Zalmoxis [god of the Getae]

• According to Herodotus, some Getae equated Gebeleizis with Zalmoxis as the same god.
• It is argued that in ancient Thrace the double axe was an attribute of Zalmoxis.
• Zalmoxis is the name of a Thracian god.
• "Papilio zalmoxis", the giant blue swallowtail, is an African butterfly belonging to the family Papilionidae.
• The Sphinx features in the 1967 film "The Dacians", in which it is a place of sacrifice to the god Zalmoxis.

• Notably, Eliade was also preoccupied with the cult of Thracian deity Zalmoxis and its supposed monotheism.
• The Iron Guard flirted with the concept, making considerable parallels between its projects and interpretations of what would have been Zalmoxis' message.
• The other name for Zalmoxis, Gebeleizis, is also spelled Belaizis and Belaixis in Herodotus manuscripts.
• The Miorița ballad is summarized and discussed by Mircea Eliade in "Zalmoxis, The Vanishing God" (1972), and plays a fundamental role in his novel "The Forbidden Forest".
• As stated earlier, just like the Dacians, the principal god of the Getae was Zalmoxis whom they sometimes called Gebeleizis.

• He explained the name as "a play on the two names antimachus and zalmoxis".
• Kogaionon was the holy mountain of the Geto-Dacians, the place where Zalmoxis stayed in a cave for three years.
• According to ancestral custom, the bravest young warrior must be sacrificed to the Dacian god Zalmoxis to win his favour.