Palaemon

human_specialist water Greek single tradition · 2

Palaemon was a hermit who guided Pachomius in his ascetic pursuits. Pachomius studied with Palaemon for seven years.

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When

First attested
800 BCE
Attested period
-800 – 2024

Relationships

teacher of
Pachomius
aspect of
Melicertes
child of
Heracles
manifested by
Melicertes

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Sources

Source passages

“Pachomius then came into contact with several well known ascetics and decided to pursue that path under the guidance of the hermit named Palaemon (317). One of his devotions, popular at the time, was praying with his arms stretched out in the form of a cross.”

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“Both were afterwards worshipped as marine divinities, Ino as Leucothea ('the white goddess'), Melicertes as Palaemon.”

#28706 · extracted by deepseek/deepseek-chat