Metis

A male being, a mystic personification of the power of generation among the so-called Orphics, similar to Phanes and Ericapaeus.

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References

Sources

  • Orphic. Fragments vi, 19; viii, 2.
  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.

This article incorporates text from Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1870) by William Smith, which is in the public domain.