Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "The Thracian horseman (Bulgarian: Тракийски конник, Serbian: Трачки коњаник) is the name given to a recurring motif of a deity in the form of a horseman, in Paleo-Balkanic mythology. The motif typically features a caped horseman astride a steed, with a spear poised in his right hand. He is often depicted as slaying a beast with a spear, though this features is sometimes absent. The tradition is best illustrated in surviving artifacts from Thrace, Macedonia, Moesia, and Scythia Minor dating to the Roman era, and is often found depicted on funerary statues. There are different theories on the identification of the deity.Rhesus, a Thracian king who fought on the side of the Trojans in the Iliad, Book X.A god of the underworld, which would explain why he commonly appears on funerary statues.Sabazios, the Thracian version of the Indo-European Dyeus. Sabazios gained widespread importance after the Roman conquest. The rider is a syncretism of a Romanized people; the rider is a representation of the Cult of Apollo.After Christianity was adopted, the motif of the Thracian horseman is believed to have continued in representations of Saint George slaying the dragon.In the 4th century, the reliefs were considered to be representations of St. George."@en }
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- Thracian_horseman abstract "The Thracian horseman (Bulgarian: Тракийски конник, Serbian: Трачки коњаник) is the name given to a recurring motif of a deity in the form of a horseman, in Paleo-Balkanic mythology. The motif typically features a caped horseman astride a steed, with a spear poised in his right hand. He is often depicted as slaying a beast with a spear, though this features is sometimes absent. The tradition is best illustrated in surviving artifacts from Thrace, Macedonia, Moesia, and Scythia Minor dating to the Roman era, and is often found depicted on funerary statues. There are different theories on the identification of the deity.Rhesus, a Thracian king who fought on the side of the Trojans in the Iliad, Book X.A god of the underworld, which would explain why he commonly appears on funerary statues.Sabazios, the Thracian version of the Indo-European Dyeus. Sabazios gained widespread importance after the Roman conquest. The rider is a syncretism of a Romanized people; the rider is a representation of the Cult of Apollo.After Christianity was adopted, the motif of the Thracian horseman is believed to have continued in representations of Saint George slaying the dragon.In the 4th century, the reliefs were considered to be representations of St. George.".