Thracian · deity · Hellenistic to Late Roman Thrace, Moesia and the Black Sea (c. 3rd c. BCE 4th c. CE) · deity
The Thracian Rider hero-god of the votive reliefs. Classified 'deity' though he is fundamentally a heroized-dead/hero-god class (the prompt's culture-hero/heroized tier): on funerary stelae he is the deified deceased, on votives a protective god. Native theonym unrecorded ('' would be wrong to invent); only the Greek title Heros and local epithets survive. The epithet-bearing local manifestations (Karabazmos, Manimazos) are given separate entries below.
Domains
heroized dead
hunting and protection
healing and medicine
Powers
rides down boar and beast with the spear
mediates between the living and the dead
Epithets
Ἥρως
σωτήρ
ἐπήκοος
Sources
The Thracian Horseman relief and inscription corpus, Thrace and the western Black Sea