into the underworld, and he later became subsumed into the cult of the "Dionysian" aspect of , within which he stood as a substitute for both the "Apollonian" and "Dionysian" , that is he became a demigod or anthropodaemon (deified man) and the son of the Great Mother of the Gods, . Orpheus was the first initiate into the mystery cult of the sacred marriage of , and thus was the first priest-king, carrying the teachings of his own origins, was both a prophet and preacher of the mystery cult of , and was therefore predestined to bring order to the world. Only through Orpheus's coming did the Cosmos start to function, and both the creation of the physical world and the beginning of human society were brought into existence. Orpheus himself then, by his gradual self-improvement, gained enlightenment and united with , thus becoming a demigod. Orpheus was connected to not only because he was a cultural reformer who founded a religious doctrine, but also through him being the one who taught the Thracians to farm (which parallels the Greek myth of Triptolemus and Arcas teaching their tribesmen to farm after learning it from Demeter). Orpheus/ was therefore a type of deity called a deus otiosus ("idle god"), to which also belonged the Greek Cronus, the Roman Saturn, and the Indo-Aryan , who all have certain common traits, such as being kings of the underworld who personify the "middle heaven," are social as well as cosmic mediators, and have earthly incarnations during which they are priests who possess arcane sacral knowledge and always withdraw from power. The Greeks therefore identified with Cronus, who was referred to as (), that is "reason," in the Derveni papyrus, confirming this identification. Orpheus thus personified the priestly role of the Thracian ruler, attested in the Thracian incantation "Our king , being himself god," and was reflected in his role as a poet and singer, which embodied the concept of the power of words and followed the Indo-European concept of the poet's religious role as the mediator between the gods and humanity. Thus, Orpheus's songs consisted of the sacred knowledge of Thracian tribal oral tradition and revealed the will of the gods, hence why they had a magical effect on humans, animals, trees, and rocks. The myth of the Thracian Orpheus was also a myth of shamanistic initiation, and his life symbolised the initiatory