In the [182] Island _Thasus_, where _Cadmus_ left his brother _Thasus_, the _Phœnicians_ built a Temple to _Hercules Olympius_, that _Hercules_, whom _Cicero_ [183] calls _ex Idæis Dactylis; cui inferias afferunt_. When the mysteries of _Ceres_ were instituted in _Eleusis_, there were other mysteries instituted to her and her daughter and daughter's husband, in the Island _Samothrace_, by the _Phœnician_ names of _Dii Cabiri Axieros_, _Axiokersa_, and _Axiokerses_, that is, the great Gods _Ceres_, _Proserpina_ and _Pluto_: for [184] _Jasius_ a _Samothracian_, whose sister married _Cadmus_, was familiar with _Ceres_; and _Cadmus_ and _Jasius_ were both of them instituted in these mysteries. _Jasius_ was the brother of _Dardanus_, and married _Cybele_ the daughter of _Meones_ King of _Phrygia_, and by her had _Corybas_; and after his death, _Dardanus_, _Cybele_ and _Corybas_ went into _Phrygia_, and carried thither the mysteries of the mother of the Gods, and _Cybele_ called the goddess after her own name, and _Corybas_ called her priests _Corybantes_: thus _Diodorus_; but _Dionysius_ saith [185] that _Dardanus_ instituted the _Samothracian_ mysteries, and that his wife _Chryses_ learnt them in _Arcadia_, and that _Idæus_ the son of _Dardanus_ instituted afterwards the mysteries of the mother of the gods in _Phrygia_: this _Phrygian_ Goddess was drawn in a chariot by lions, and had a _corona turrita_ on her head, and a drum in her hand, like the _Phœnician_ Goddess _Astarte_, and the _Corybantes_ danced in armour at her sacrifices in a furious manner, like the _Idæi Dactyli_; and _Lucian_ [186] tells us that she was the _Cretan Rhea_, that is, _Europa_ the mother of _Minos_: and thus the _Phœnicians_ introduced the practice of Deifying dead men and women among the _Greeks_ and _Phrygians_; for I meet with no instance of Deifying dead men and women in _Greece_, before the coming of _Cadmus_ and _Europa_ from _Zidon_.