File:The sacred springs of Ancient Dion with Mount Olympus in the background, Dion (6930181030).jpg
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Next to the entrance to the archaeological site is a large spring, around which the sacred grove of the Muses was probably located. According to ancient tradition, the Muses, fruit of the union of Zeus and Mnemosyne, were born in Pieria. At the foot of Mount Olympus the common cult of the Muses and Zeus Olympios developped, which later became the religious nucleus of the organisation of the Olympia in Dion. It is known from the ancient testimonies that the official festival at Dion lasted nine days and that each day had the name of one Muse. In Hellenistic times the devotees of the Muses at Dion constituted an organized essembly, the «koinon of Musaists», as attested by an inscription from the reign of King Perseus (170-168 BC). The abondance water sources that to this day inundate the area of Dion were decisive factors for the founding and spatial arrangement of the ancient sanctuaries. Water was a basic element in the cults of Zeus, which were associated mainly with weather phenemena, nature, fertility and healing. The well-watered place, with copious springs, was considered suitable for establishing the cult of Olympian Zeus, who was worshipped initially as a god of rain and weather. Spring waters also played a role in the acts of worship and healing performed in the sanctuaries of Zeus Hypsistos, Isis and Asklepios. The spring waters end up in a small river, which was navigable in Antiquity and linked Dion with the Thermaic gulf. Ancient tradition has it that in the eastern foothills of Olympus flowed the Helikon, the present Ourlia torrent. On the backs of the Helikon the women of Pieria killed Orpheus and then washed their bloody hands in its crystal-clear waters. The blood-stained river vanished into the earth, to re-emerge on the surface four kilometres downstream, at Dion. Its overland course from Dion to the sea was known henceforth as Vaphyras. Patron deity of the river was Artemis Vaphyria, who is represented on coins minted at Dion in Roman Imperial times. |
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The sacred springs of Ancient Dion with Mount Olympus in the background, Dion
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| Author | Carole Raddato from FRANKFURT, Germany |
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