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by Micha F. Lindemans

An epithet of Dionysus, alluding to a fertility aspect of the god. The name means "he of the winnowing fan"; a sort of shovel with which the cut grain was thrown into the air to separate the chaff. The winnowing fan was one of the implements used in the Mysteries.