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

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

Kyamites was probably a name for Hades.

Notes

1. Photius, Lexicon, s. v. Kyamites
2. Plutarch, Lives of Ten Orators, 4
3. Moralia, 837c
4. Kerényi, Carl; Kerényi, Karl (September 1991). Eleusis: Archetypal Image of Mother and Daughter. Princeton University Press. ISBN 0691019150.

References

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

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