
THE GOATS OF HERMES WERE NOT GOATS Jordanes said that the Ister river was named by the "Bessi" tribe of Thracians, thus showing ties between the Bessi and the goddess, Ishtar, the so-called Great Mother of the Heavenly Dragon. How close, therefore, were the Bessi to the core of the Sumerian dragon cult? Are we to trace the Europe-ward dragon bloodline primarily through the Bessi and their relatives? Indeed, among the Bessi were a Dionysus-worshipping peoples called "Satrae," who were obviously the Satan-important peoples depicted by the Satyr creatures of Greek myth, one of which was Pan, son of Hermes. Indeed, indeed, for Herodotus...