Some male devotees accompany their chain-wielding goddess:
Below are some fit lines from Euripides’ Bakkhai (from scene 1) describing Korybantes—ecstatic drumming and pipe-playing young men devoted to the Phrygian mother-goddess Kybele:
Triple-crested Korybantes
Devised for me
The circle of stretched hide!
In the frenzy of the dance
They joined this beat with the sweet
Calling breath of Phrygian
Pipes, they gave the drum,
Pounding for the Bakkhic cries
Of ecstasy, to Mother Rhea.