of reproduction in both nature and human society. However, the Thracologist Ivan Marazov has criticised this supposed Thracian divine triad as an artificial construction by Herodotus to make the Thracian deities more comprehensible to his Greek audience, and has pointed out that more Thracian deities are mentioned by Herodotus himself and are also attested archaeologically. Instead, only two major deities are attested in the Thracian pantheon, the Great Goddess and the Hero God , while Orpheus/ was a demigod. Every Thracian deity was assigned the attributes of a mounted hunter. As with most peoples of Antiquity, the kingdom of the gods in Thracian religion was patterned after the human kingdoms, and the order prevailing in the divine realm was considered as the ideal model for earthly society. This realm was not seen as fully separate from the human world, however, as attested by the threat of the Scaeii's and the Cebrenii's king-priest Cosingas that he would climb a ladder to heaven to complain to the goddess about them. The Thracians did not perceive the world in terms of linear time, and therefore conceptualised their religion and myths not as histories of ancient pasts, but as occurring in the present, unlike the religious worldview of their Greek neighbours. In the Thracian religion, there was no difference between the mythical and heroic past and the present, and the heroes were believed to still be performing their valorous deeds in the present on another plane of existence in heaven which was not necessarily separate from the world of the living necessarily in an abrupt way. The Thracian Great Mother of the Gods, who was the deity equated by Herodotus with the Greek Artemis, was the main figure of Thracian religion along with the great god , and she was known by many names, including: (), derived from the Indo-European root , meaning "to bind". was the name most commonly used for the Thracian Great Goddess, especially in south-western Thrace, in the valleys of the Strymon, Nestus and Axius rivers, but also among the Bithyni, who were a Thracian tribe settled in Anatolia Kottyto Hipta or Hippa , meaning "rock" or "mountain top" was the embodiment of Heaven and Earth, the source of all life, and the ancestress of humankind, and she represented the mountain, which itself personified the four classical elements from which the world was believed to be made of: her womb