 Ovid talks about Bacchus carrying a thyrsus and his followers doing the same in his Metamorphoses Book III, which is a retelling of The Bacchae.The bas-relief in bronze ye promised me,/Those Pans and nymphs ye wot of, and perchance/Some tripod, thrysus, with a vase or so, (56-58)







Zalmoxis

Zalmoxis () 
is a divinity of the Getae and Dacians (a people of the lower Danube), mentioned by Herodotus in his "Histories" Book IV, 93–96, written before 425 BC.According to Jordanes's "Getica", he was a learned philosopher, before whom two other learned men existed, by the names of Zeuta and Deceneus.