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The Kouretes Specific Kouretes include: Paionios, Epimedes, Iasios, Idas, and Herakles. Epithets: Daktyloi (Fingers), Korybantes Symbols: drums, swords, rattles, flutes, forges Animal(s): none Sacrifices: all metals, aromatic herbs, noise and dancing Primary Cult Center(s): Crete, Phrygia Festivals: none on their own - always connected to the Great Mother Kybele For more information: Apollodorus Library 1.1.6-7, 2.1.3, 3.3.1 Hesiod Fragment 6 Ovid's Metamorphoses 4.281-2 Pausanias Guide to Greece 5.7.6 Diodorus Siculus The Library of History 65.1