Kriophoros
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thumb|upright|Painted terracotta cult image of the Kriophoros from Thebes in [[Boeotia, (Musée du Louvre)]]
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- ''Kriophoroi'' and "The Good Shepherd"
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thumb|upright|Painted terracotta cult image of the Kriophoros from Thebes in [[Boeotia, (Musée du Louvre)]]
In ancient Greek religion, kriophoros () or criophorus, the "ram-bearer," is a figure of Hermes that commemorates the solemn sacrifice of a ram; thus, one of the god's epithets is Hermes Kriophoros.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kriophoros” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.