Bormus or Borimus in mythology of North Anatolia, was a Mariandynian, son of a rich and illustrious man named Upius or Titias or Tityos, distinguished for his extraordinary beauty. Once during the time of harvest, when he went to a well to fetch water for the reapers, he was drawn into the well by the nymphs, and never appeared again. For this reason, the country people in Bithynia

Bithynia

Bithynia was an ancient region, kingdom and Roman province in the northwest of Asia Minor, adjoining the Propontis, the Thracian Bosporus and the Euxine .-Description:...

 celebrated his memory every year at the time of harvest with plaintive songs (bormoi) with the accompaniment of their flutes. The harvest-song for Phrygian Lityerses

Lityerses

In Greek mythology, Lityerses was a son of Midas. He challenged people to harvesting contests and beheaded those he beat. Heracles won the contest and killed him. He was also known as the reaper of men....

was, according to one tradition, a comic version of the lament sung by the Mariandyni for Bormos.