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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 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.
In Orphic literature, Erikepaios (Ancient Greek: Ἠρικεπαῖος, lit. 'power'), [citation needed] also spelled Ericepaeus, was a title for the god Phanes, mentioned in Orphic poetry and the associated Dionysian Mysteries.
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 .
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 ...
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]
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