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A minor god in Greek mythology, attested mainly by Athenian writers, Aristaeus (/ærɪˈstiːəs/; Greek: Ἀρισταῖος Aristaios), was the culture hero credited with the discovery of many useful arts, including bee-keeping;[1] he was the son of the huntress Cyrene and Apollo.
Aristeus ("the best") was a cult title in many places: Boeotia, Arcadia, Ceos, Sicily, Sardinia, Thessaly, and Macedonia; consequently a set of "travels" was imposed, connecting his epiphanies in order to account for these widespread manifestations.[2]
If Aristaeus was a minor figure at Athens, he was more prominent in Boeotia, where he was "the pastoral Apollo",[3] and was linked to the founding myth of Thebes by marriage with Autonoë, daughter of Cadmus, the founder.[4] Aristaeus may appear as a winged youth in painted Boeotian pottery,[5] similar to representations of the Boreads, spirits of the North Wind. Besides Actaeon and Macris, he also was said to have fathered Charmus and Callicarpus in Sardinia.[6]
When Aristaeus was born, according to what Pindar sang, Hermes took him to be raised on nectar and ambrosia and to be made immortal by Gaia.
Aristaeus is a god and patron of a wide array of rustic and rural arts, crafts, skills, practices and traditions:
- From his father, Apollo, the wise Centaur, Chiron and from his aunts, the Muses, Aristaeus learned the arts of prophecy, healing and herblore (similarly like his half-brother, Asclepius).
- From his aunt, Artemis and from his mother, Cyrene (who was also a companion of his aunt, Artemis, either as a nymph or as a mortal princess-turned-nymph), Aristaeus learned how to track, hunt and trap animals, and how to dress and prepare their meat (Butchering) and skins (Leather making).
- From his uncle, Hephaestus, Aristaeus learned the ways of working with metal (mining, blacksmithing and metalworking, etc.), stone (quarrying and stonemasonry, etc.), clay (pottery and ceramics, etc.) and wood (woodworking, etc.), etc.
- From his uncle, Dionysus, Aristaeus learned the processes of how to produce alcoholic beverages, such as wine, ale, beer, kykeon, mead, kumis, absinthe, etc. (although an alternate account states that he was the one who taught Dionysus, having served as a surrogate father to him on the island of Euboia (as-opposed to Dionysus learning about winemaking from the wise old Satyr, Silenus)); as-such, Aristaeus is worshipped as a protector of grapevines and of vineyards, while Dionysus is the god of wine and of wine-making.
- From his great-aunt, Demeter, Aristaeus learned the skills of agriculture, horticulture and animal husbandry.
- From the Myrtle-nymphs (being, either Dryads or Oreads), who raised him on Apollo's behalf, Aristaeus learned other useful arts and mysteries, such as dairying; how to prepare milk for cream, butter, oxygala (similar to yogurt) and cheese; how to keep chickens for their eggs; how to tame the Goddess's bees and keep them in hives (the bees either belonging to the Myrtle-nymphs-themselves or the Thriae), along with how to tame the wild oleaster in order to make it bear olives and how to process them into olive oil (like his aunt, Athena); as-such, Aristaeus is a protector of olive trees, of olive plantations and of olive oil presses (where-as Athena is the goddess of olives, of olive-oil and of olive-oil-making).
- From his aunt, Athena, Aristaeus learned the skills to weave, making him the patron of ropemaking and basket weaving.
- Like his father, Apollo, his mother, Cyrene (a huntress and a shepherdess), his uncle, Hermes, and Pan, Aristaeus is also a patron god and a protector of shepherds/herders and of herding, patron of the art of Sheep shearing, as-well-as the patron god of pastoralism; of the cattle and their herds and flocks, and protector of pastures.
- Aristaeus is also a patron god of fruit trees & vegetable plants (along with Carpo of the Horae and Karpos (son of Zephyrus/Favonius and Chloris/Flora)), and a patron god of the arts foraging, hunting & fishing, husbandry & agriculture, of the arts of food preservation (fermenting, pickling, brining, curing, smoking and drying of foodstuffs).
- Aristaeus also taught to humans the arts of dairy skills (including cheesemaking), as well as the use of nets and traps in hunting.
In Ceos, Aristaeus is also a god of the Etesian winds, which provided some respite from the intense heat of their scorching, drought-causing midsummers weather/climate.
Mythologie waar Aristaeus bij hoort: Grieks
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Aristaeus is de god van de bijenhouderij en de zuivel.
Aristaeus is de vader van Aktaion.
Aristaeus is de zoon van Apollo en Cyrene.
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