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Sanctuary of Demeter Eleusinian

TAYGETOS (Mountain) PELOPONNISOS
Between Taletum and Euoras is a place they name Therae, where they say Leto from the Peaks of Taygetus ... is a sanctuary of Demeter surnamed Eleusinian. Here according to the Lacedaemonian story Heracles was hidden by Asclepius while he was being healed of a wound. In the sanctuary is a wooden image of Orpheus, a work, they say, of Pelasgians.

Perseus: Pausanias, Description of Greece, Laconia
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