The Routledge Dictionary of Gods and Goddesses , Devil and Demons
The supreme god of the Thracian Getae and Dacians (Dacia being the area known today as Romania). The only solid information we have about him comes from Herodotus.
The ancient Greeks interpreted Zalmoxis as the founder of a religion, while present-day scholars tend to see him rather as an earth-god, a sky-god, a ruler of the dead or as a figure in divine mysteries. The legend tells how Zalmoxis took human form and lived among his people and then vanished for three years and was mourned as dead. In the fourth year, however, he came forth again from an underworld cave (the realm of the dead).
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