Cyamites

{{Short description|Mythical Greek hero associated with beans}}

Cyamites or Kyamites ({{langx|grc|Κυαμίτης}}) from κύαμος "bean", was a hero in ancient Greek religion, worshiped locally in Athens.Photius, Lexicon, s. v. KyamitesPlutarch, Lives of Ten Orators, 4

His name has been interpreted as "the god of the beans and patron of the bean market", given that a bean market (κυαμῖτις) was reported by PlutarchMoralia, 837c to have been situated on the same road not far from the sanctuary.

Kyamites was probably a name for Hades.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ds1Wg01wzeYC&pg=PA193|title=Eleusis: Archetypal Image of Mother and Daughter|isbn=0691019150 |last1=Kerényi |first1=Carl |date=September 1991 |publisher=Princeton University Press }}