Cairetw,

 would like to post an initial message concerning the daemons faith in Sparta, begging from the two famous brothers Kastor and Polythephki.

The relationship of the Spartans with the gods Dioscuri, Kastor and Polythephki, can be the stamp of the Sparta’s identity and with relationship of worship the holy father; meaning the sons of Zeus. Their sister was Helen, wife of the Homeric Spartan king Menelaous. We can say that the Dioscuri introduced the morality and nobility of Spartans. Kastor and Polythephkis were the protectors of the state.

On coins of Laconia, one frequent symbol of the Dioscuri is a snaked-twined amphora. That can be play the part of fertility-daimoneV. As J. Harrison stated: “the are not only, as the coins shows them, lucida sidera but they are Gods of all manner of increase; they can make rain, they cause the dew to fall.”

Except of the above-mentioned way of imaging Dioscuri, in Laconia is known the symbol of two on horses’ naked-youths. We can conclude that they had a close connection with Goddess Artemis Orthia. In Her temple, south of Sparta, we found numerous reliefs with images of horses.

Yours,

Nikolaos Cleomenes