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Iacchus

by Micha F. Lindemans
The name by which Dionysus was hailed in the Eleusian Mysteries, sometimes equated with Bacchus, although at Eleusis Dionysus was regarded as the son of Zeus and Demeter.

It may be a personification of the word iakchos, a hymn sung in honor of Bacchus.

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