Daduchos
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Template:Short description Daduchos or Daduchus, or Dadouchos (/dəˈdjuːkəs/;[1] Template:Langx "torch-bearer", from δᾶις+ἔχω) is an epithet of Artemis, and notably of Demeter seeking her lost daughter (Persephone) with a torch. It was also an epithet of Hekate,[2] a goddess frequently associated with torches. This title was given in the Rhodes Island in Greece.[2] It was also the title of the second priest (ranking after the Hierophant) at the Eleusinian Mysteries, an office inherited in several families of Athens.
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Gardner, Dorsey; Porter, Noah, eds. (1884). A Practical Dictionary of the English Language. New York: Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor & Co. p. 548.
- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.MORELLI, DONATO (1959). "Parte Prima: FONTI". Studi Classici e Orientali. 8: 1–73. ISSN 0081-6124. JSTOR 24172474.
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