two young Greeks from the kingdom of Attalus II, garlanded them like sacrificial animals, led them to his royal palace, declared that his sacrifice could not be the same as that of the common people, and sacrificed them in his royal palace. while the attendees praised his skill and sang a paean At Seuthopolis, the Odrysian king Seuthes III, the sanctuary of the Cabeiri was an important part of the royal palace and it contained one of the largest cult fireplaces of the city. This sanctuary is the material evidence of the function of the king-high priest which is mentioned in both mythological and historical literary sources At the time of the Dacians king Burebista, one Deceneus visited Egypt and learned about magic there. When Deceneus returned to the Dacians, he began to consider himself as a god, just like . In Dacia, Burebista received Deceneus and invested him with quasi-total royal power. When Deceneus died, the respect the Dacians held for him passed on to Comosicus, who was Deceneus's equal in title and was respected by the Dacians because he was both high priest and king. And when Comosicus died, Scorilo succeeded him. This order of historical events paralleled the myth of going to Egypt to learn wisdom and being made co-ruler or high priest by the king when he returned to the Getae. Deceneus himself was part of an institution of dual kingship of the Dacians, and after him the dual power was transferred to Comosicus alone, and after Comosicus to Scorilo alone. Thus, the mythological and historical aspects of royalty had become one and the same among the Dacians too, and the king-high priest and god-king became a model of royal power The functions of Thracian kingship The role of the Thracian kingship as a tripartite structure uniting the synthesis of the military, priestly and agriculturalist functions is reflected in Greek myths referring to Thrace. In one Greek myth, Charops founded the Dionysian dynasty of Thrace through war, representing the military function; Charops's successor, Oeagrus, was a lonely hunter, representing the agricultural function; Oeagrus's successor, Orpheus, was a poet who founded mystery cults and was a religious reformer, therefore personifying the priestly function. In another Greek myth, the first Edoni king, Rhesus, who possessed magical weapons and was killed during the Trojan War, represented the warrior-king; his brother Olynthus died during a lion hunting trial (which in