المعبودات الإغريقية في إقليم كيرينايكا

Abstract EN

The worship of the Greek gods spread in the city of Kereni since the arrival of the first Greeks, and the coming of the Greeks to the territory of Kerinaica was based on the advice of the priests of the revelation of the god Apollo in Delphi around the year 639 BC, where the delegation of colonists from the island of Thera, and Herodotus mentions that the people of Thera established their city at The spring that was surrounded by the Apollo spring, and the Libyans told them, "O Greeks, this place is suitable for your residence, because it has a hole in the sky".

It is worth noting that the Greeks, before their arrival to Kereni, had arrived by sea carrying two ships of fifty paddlers and the number of their sailors was 200 sailors, and they arrived at the island of Platia (the bay of the Pemba now) and they stayed there for two years, then they went to Isiris (now Derna) and they stayed there for six years.

The Libyan tribes guided them to the site of the city of Kereni (present-day Shahat), where they established a great civilization whose evidence is still visible until the present time.

Diodorus of Sicily told us about the king of the Greeks who immigrated to Kereni and mentioned his name, King Patos I, and described this king's piety and his eagerness to show his reverence for the Greek gods, as Pindarus was demonstrating the piety of this king that he set up large structures for the gods and established religious festivals in homage to the god Apollo and the rule of Patos the first for forty years The city of Kereni was known for worshiping the Greek gods arriving from the Greeks with the implementation of all their religious rituals.