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There are many, and often contradictory, legends about the more ancient King Midas.

In one, Midas was king of Pessinus, a city of Phrygia, who as a child was adopted by the king Gordias and Cybele, the goddess whose consort he was, and who ( by some accounts ) was the goddess-mother of Midas himself.

Some accounts place the youth of Midas in Macedonian Bermion ( See Bryges ) In Thracian Mygdonia, A wild rose garden at the foot of Mount Bermion was called by Herodotus " the garden of Midas son of Gordias, where roses grow of themselves, each bearing sixty blossoms and of surpassing fragrance ".

Since Herodotus says elsewhere that Phrygians anciently lived in Europe where they were known as Bryges, the existence of the garden implies that Herodotus believed Midas lived prior to a Phrygian migration to Anatolia.