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- Hermes Kriophoros had a joint cult, the ram-bearers (kriophoroi) joining in male initiation rites. A description by Pausanias of a Kriophoros dedicated...
- a ram. It becomes an epithet of Hermes: Hermes Kriophoros. In two-dimensional art, Hermes Kriophoros transformed into the Christ carrying a lamb and...
- depicting Jonah and the whale, the good shepherd carrying a lamb (the kriophoros motif), and fishermen have led to an interpretation of the deity as Christ...
- Terracotta figure of Kriophoros wearing a zoster (c. 650 BC)...
- Hyperborean in Thrace. epimelios, taking care of animals . kriophoros.In ancient Gr**** culture, kriophoros (Gr****: κριοφόρος) or criophorus, the "ram-bearer,"...
- and style indicate a date in the early 6th century BC, around 570 BC. Kriophoros statues of a man with a ram on his shoulders in a similar manner, are...
- Hermes Kriophoros...
- Hermes Criophorus (Ancient Gr****: Ἑρμῆς Κριοφόρος, romanized: Hermês Kriophóros, lit. 'Hermes bearing a ram') is a marble sculpture of the second century...
- gods. In classical iconography, the god Hermes was sometimes shown as a kriophoros, a handsome, beardless youth bearing a ram or sheep over his shoulders...
- portrait of the historical Jesus at this period. It continues the classical Kriophoros ("ram-bearer" figure), and in some cases may also represent the Shepherd...