a vessel in one hand and in the other one a branch which obscures the view of the hero; this figure is a vegetation goddess with an ectatic aspect, which is symbolised by the vessel she holds, which contains a sacred beverage, and whose connection to the Great Goddess is analogous to that of the Snake-Legged Goddess with Artimpasa. The Thracian reflex of the Indo-European sky-god , who was called , , and , was the first son of , created by the goddess herself. was the main figure of Thracian religion along with the Great Mother of the Gods . was the personification of the male principle who had both a celestial and a chthonic aspect, which were respectively identified with the Sun and with Fire. Unlike the Greek gods who each had a separate function and a clear-cut image, was a universal god believed to be omnipotent who was worshipped by all the Thracian tribes, having a complex and contradictory nature, as attested by his solar, chthonic, and heroic forms: the Thracian pantheon did not have any specific deity of the Sun or of the underworld, they were instead all aspects of one and the same all-seeing and all-hearing god who was the Sun as well as the ruler of the underworld, and who protected life and health and kept the forces of evil at bay. In his role of storm- and thunder-god, was given the epithet of , which means "lightning thrower" and "lightning bearer". The Apsinthii tribe worshipped as a household, and therefore universal, god, under the name of Pleistorus (, ). Following the Thracian practice of often adopting the names of Greek gods and using these for their own gods, the various aspects of were identified with and given the names of Dionysus, Apollo, Asclepius, Ares, Silvanus, and other Graeco-Roman gods depending on the nature of the aspect in question. The "Apollonian" The celestial and solar aspect of , initially a separate god called Sabazios, was identified with the Greek god Apollo. Various Thracian epithets of the solar or "Apollonian" form of included (), (), (), (), and (). An epithet of the god from the Roman period is (). The solar was personified as a rock, and to whom horses were sacred. The worship of 's solar aspect who was identified with the Greek Apollo is attested in literary, epigraphic and iconographic records. According