He challenged people to harvesting contests and beheaded those he beat, putting the rest of their bodies in the sheaves.
Heracles won the contest and killed him, then threw his body into the river Maeander.
One source describes him as a glutton who could eat "three asses' panniers" of food and drink "a ten-amphora cask" of wine at a time.
[2] The Phrygians' song for Lityerses was, according to one tradition, a comic version of the Mariandyni's lament sung for Bormus.
[5] Theocritus in his tenth Idyll gives a specimen of a Greek harvest-song addressed to Demeter, called 'the Song of the Divine Lityerses'.