A deity of the Hyperborean Thracian tribes, associated with the afterlife. He is said to have been a student and slave of Pythagoras. He preached happiness in the afterlife and was worshiped as a god even during his lifetime. He became equated with other Geto-Dacian gods like Sabazios and Gebeleizis.

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A family of Greeks of Diaspora established in Constantinople. The Zarifis family, after 1830, became one of the most significant families of the social and economic elite of the Greek commercial Diaspora. Its activities lay in trade and after the mid-19th century in the finance business. The members of the family, having Constantinople as their starting point, were established at the most important trade centres of that period (Marseilles, London, Odessa) though they always kept their...