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Phanes was a male god; in an original Orphic Hymn he is named as "Lord Priapos", [5] although others consider him androgynous. [1] Phanes was a deity of light and goodness, whose name meant "to bring light" or "to shine"; [6] [7] a first-born deity, he emerged from the abyss and gave birth to the universe. [7]
The mythographer Otto Gruppe suggested the Phanes-myth appeared in its original form in Babylonia. Thence it spread over the Near East, and took root particularly in Syria and Asia Minor . The gods of Babylon themselves were not imported, but the myth was attached to the local deities of the districts to which it spread.
Phanes are abstractions of highly complex organic molecules introduced for simplification of the naming of these highly complex molecules.. Systematic nomenclature of organic chemistry consists of building a name for the structure of an organic compound by a collection of names of its composite parts but describing also its relative positions within the structure.
Proclus also says that, when Phanes hatched from the cosmic egg, Aether and Chasm were split. [ 45 ] Aether, the material element is also mentioned twice in a thirty-two line hymn-like passage to Zeus which was apparently part of the Rhapsodies in which various parts of the physical cosmos are associated with parts of Zeus' body. [ 46 ]
One such figure was Phanes of Halicarnassus, who would later leave Amasis, for reasons that Herodotus does not clearly know, but suspects were personal between the two figures. Amasis sent one of his eunuchs to capture Phanes, but the eunuch was bested by the wise councilman and Phanes fled to Persia, meeting up with Cambyses and providing ...
Phanes is a Greek deity. Phanes may also refer to: Phanes coins, the most ancient inscribed coins, which have the name "Phanes" on them; Phanes (organic chemistry), a structural sub-unit in nomenclature; Phanes of Halicarnassus, a councilman serving Amasis, who would eventually help Cambyses II to conquer Egypt; Phanes, a genus of butterflies
Phanes of Halicarnassus (Ancient Greek: Φάνης) was a wise council man, a tactician, and a mercenary from Halicarnassus, serving the Egyptian pharaoh Amasis II (570–526 BC). Most of what history recounts of Phanes is from the account of Herodotus in his grand historical text, the Histories .
Amasis sent one of his eunuchs to capture Phanes, but the eunuch was bested by the wise councilman and Phanes fled to Persia, meeting up with Cambyses and providing advice for his invasion of Egypt. Egypt was finally lost to the Persians during the battle of Pelusium in 525 BC.