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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]
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 .
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.
Also, in the Orphic tradition, Phanes, a mystic Orphic deity of light and procreation, sometimes identified with Eros, is the original ruler of the universe, who hatched from the cosmic egg. [26] The Orphic tradition also includes Ananke "Compulsion" and Chronos "Time" among the primordial deities.
Proclus relates that Phanes passes on his rule to Nyx by giving her a sceptre which he created himself, handing it on to her willingly, and that after her own time as ruler, she too passes on the sceptre voluntarily, giving it to her son Uranus. [134] When Phanes gives her the sceptre, he seemingly also confers upon her the gift of prophecy. [135]
In Orphic cosmogony, Phanes emerges from the world egg at the beginning of time, bringing the universe into existence. There is some literary evidence of the syncretism of Mithras and Phanes. A list of the eight elements of creation appears in Zenobius and Theon of Smyrna ; most of the elements are the same, but in Zenobius, the seventh element ...
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
The Phanes coins are a series of coins issued in seven denominations: stater, 1/3, 1/6, 1/12, 1/24, 1/48, and 1/96 stater.The staters weigh 14.1 grams. All of the coins have the image of a stag or part of a stag on them. [1]