𓈒 💗 King , Kekrôps 𖦹 ♰ ◞ Overview 𓏏 KEKROPS (Cecrops) was an early, earth-born king of Attika and founder the city of Athens. Kekrops was the first man to offer sacrifices to the goddess Athena after her birth from the head of Zeus and he established her ancient shrine on the Akropolis. When Poseidon disputed her claim to the city, Kekrops was asked to adjudicate and ruled in her favour. He was succeeded on the throne by Athena's foster-son, the earth-born hero Erikthonios (Erichthonius).
︵｡ Hellenic ♡ King of ༚ 𓏵 Attika and founder the city of Athens ..
𓈒 🏛️ portrayed , art 𖦹 ♰ ◞ He was depicted as a man from the waist up with a serpent's-tail in place of legs.
𓏏 Worship / Devotional acts ︵｡ . Cecrops is represented in the Attic legends as the author of the first elements of civilized life, such as marriage, the political division of Attica into twelve communities, and also as the introducer of a new mode of worship, inasmuch as he abolished the bloody sacrifices which had until then been offered to Zeus, and substituted cakes (pelanoi) in their stead. ♡ olives, wisdom, study, learn about marriage, worship lady athene
༚ 𓏵 Sources + Notes .. theoi, britannica, Mythological Studies -# Some ancients referred the epithet diphuês to marriage, of which tradition made him the founder. The name of Cecrops occurs also in other parts of Greece, especially where there existed a town of the name of Athenae, such as in Boeotia, where he is said to have founded the ancient towns of Athenae and Eleusis on the river Triton, and where he had a heroum at Haliartus. Tradition there called him a son of Pandion. In Euboea, which had likewise a town Athenae, Cecrops was called a son of Erechtheus and Praxithea, and a grandson of Pandion. (Apollod. iii. 15. §§ 1, 5; Paus. i. 5. § 3.) From these traditions it appears, that Cecrops must be regarded as a hero of the Pelasgian race; and Müller justly remarks, that the different mythical personages of this name connected with the towns in Boeotia and Euboea are only multiplications of the one original hero, whose name and story were transplanted from Attica to other places. The later Greek writers describe Ceerops as having immigrated into Greece with a band of colonists from Sais in Egypt. (Diod. i. 29; Schol. ad Arist. Plut. 773.) But this account is rejected by some of the ancients.
