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second version of the myth reports that Cianippus had made sacrifices to all the gods except Bacchus who wanted to punish him and made him drunk in such a way that he raped his daughter Ciane. But the daughter during the intercourse managed to take a ring from him and gave it to the nurse to make him understand, the next day, who he had abused. Fate would have an epidemic of plague to broke out, and consulted the oracle he stated that the only way to appease him was the sacrifice of the worst man in the city. Ciane then grabbed her father by the hair and killed him with a dagger, before committing suicide himself. This sacrifice took place by the Ciane spring. So moved Proserpina collected the tears of the young Ciane and created the source.

Diodorus Siculus speaking of Heracles' trip to Sicily tells of his arrival in Syracuse, in order to honor Persephone and Ciane he sacrificed a bull right at the source of the Ciane river, ordering citizens to perform the same gesture every year.

“ Therefore Hercules, having made the tour around Sicily, as has been said, and arrived at the city, which now belongs to the Syracusans, where he understood what concerned the abduction of Proserpina, offered solemn vows to the goddesses, and immolated a beautiful bull in Ciane, he taught the inhabitants how they should celebrate the anniversary rite at Ciane, and the solemn feast of this sacrifice. Then turning inside with his herd, with great battle he conquered the Sicans, who opposed him in great strength, and very much killed them ... “

(Diodorus Siculus, IV 12)

“... it is told, that Pluto, after having kidnapped Core, that is the girl, who so they call the daughter of Ceres, having carried her on his chariot to Syracuse, opened the earth but went down with it to the Ogre, but then raised the source known as Ciane, where every year the Syracusans celebrate a solemn panegiri, in which minor victims are privately sacrificed; but publicly the sacrifices are celebrated by submerging bulls in the lake. And it was Hercules, who introduced this use, when he saw all of Sicily with the herds of Geryon. “