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The myth tells that in a cave on Mt Dikte the infant Zeus's cries were drowned out by the noisy weapon-changing dance of the Kouretes,16 evidently reflecting in the myth a ritual dance of warrior youth whose initiation practices were typically associated with caves. Thus a number of cult ingredients song, dance, youths, mother goddess come together and come into focus as a colourful myth almost paradoxically recounting the infancy of the father of gods and men, the King of the immortals. The only problem is that the caves in the east of the island do not seem to have been cult places - that element has come from Mt Ida in the centre of the island, or indded from Psychro.17