THE KNIGHT GODS AND THE SYMBOL OF THE HORSE IN GREEK – ROMAN CIVILIZATION
THE KNIGHT GODS AND THE SYMBOL OF THE HORSE IN GREEK – ROMAN CIVILIZATION

Summary/Abstract: The symbol of the KNIGHT GOD could be found all over Greek-Roman world, mainly to Dacian people and their descendants. Thus, Kernbach mentions the deities known as The Thracian Knight, The Danubian Knights and Mircea Eliade shows that, acording to Herodotus, a few centuries later, monuments of the so-called ”knight heroes” tend to grow within the Balkan area . The Thracian knight shone upon Pontus Euxinius (the Black Sea), a upon the cities Histria, Callatis, Odessus. Moreover, we can also find him at Romula, in Dacia, where he is not actually associated to Cybele. In Constantza, the Knight God with his spear is portrayed with wings like a genius of death resulting in fact, that the Thracian Hero also had funeral attributions. Stela de la Svistov, dedicated to deceased Heroni portrays the god facing up a sort of huge dragon that has nothing in common with the rescueing snake solidary with The Tree of Life, on the contrary he embodies death.

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