Cyamites

Cyamites or Kyamites (Ancient Greek: Κυαμίτης) from κύαμος "bean", was a hero in ancient Greek religion, worshiped locally in Athens.[1][2]

His name has been interpreted[by whom?] as "the god of the beans and patron of the bean market", given that a bean market (κυαμῖτις) was reported by Plutarch[3] to have been situated on the same road not far from the sanctuary.

Kyamites was probably a name for Hadês.[4]
Notes

Photius, Lexicon, s. v. Kyamites
Plutarch, Lives of Ten Orators, 4
Moralia, 837c

"Eleusis: Archetypal Image of Mother and Daughter". Karl Kerényi, Princeton University Publishing.

References

Realencyclopädie der Classischen Altertumswissenschaft, Band XI, Halbband 22, Komogrammateus-Kynegoi (1922), s. 2233 (German)

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