Deceneus (or Dicineus) was the High Priest of Zalmoxis in the time of Burebista, in ancient Dacia. Detail of the main fresco of the Aleksandrovo kurgan. ... Burebista, the greatest king of Dacia, ruled between 70 BC and 44 BC. Dacian Kingdom, during the rule of Burebista, 82 BC He unified the Thracian population from Hercinica (todays Moravia) in the West, to the Bug in the East and from Northern Carpathians to Dionysopolis, choosing his capital... Dacia, in ancient geography the land of the Daci or Getae, was a large district of Central Europe, bounded on the north by the Carpathians, on the south by the Danube, on the west by the Tisa (Tisza river, in Hungary), on the east by the Tyras (Dniester or Nistru...
In Getica, where Dacian history has been inserted in that of the Goths, he is given as the lawgiver of the Goths. The Origin and Deeds of the Goths (Latin: De origine actibusque Getarum), commonly referred to as Getica, was written by Jordanes, probably in Constantinople, and was published in AD 551. ... Invasion of the Goths: a late 19th century painting by O. Fritsche portrays the Goths as cavalrymen. ...
The spiritual center was called Kogaion (or Kagaion, the holy mountain) by Strabo, and is thought to be localized somewhere in the Bucegi mountains.
According to Jordanes, in his Getica [1] (http://members.lycos.nl/romans/gth/Goth_11.htm), the greatest priest and adivicer of Burebista was Dicineus (Deceneus), who held "almost royal powers" and taught the Dacians the "belagines laws", ethics and sciences, including physics and astronomy.
On the south of Danube, the Proconsul of the province of Macedonia, the general Varro Lucullus, during the second Mithridatic War (74 BC–72 BC) occupied the Greek cities on the west coast of the Black Sea from Apollonia to the Danube Delta.
His wife was called Zina (according to some coins found in Transylvania) and was the empress and great priestess of the Thracians.
His adviser was the Great Priest Deceneus, who instructed the Thracians to live according to the Belagines Laws and decided that the first year of the Dacian calendar was to be the year of Zamolxis' birth, 713 BC.
He went to Egypt, where he taught the Egyptian priests the sacerdotal mysteries of the Pelasgians, then returned to Dacia where, together with Burebista he unified both the Thracians both spiritually and politically.
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