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Selinunte: Sanctuary of Demeter Malaphoros, plan
Selinunte: Plan of the Sanctuary of Demeter Malaphoros (Athena Review Image Archive)
Three related shrines were built in this Sanctuary complex, located on the west side of Selinunte. The largest, and earliest, was the Sanctuary of Demeter Malophoros (literally, "bearing apples or fruit"), and her daughter Persephone. Attached was the shrine of Hecate Triformis, who according to Greek mythology, helped in the rescue of Persephone from the underworld.
The third shrine was to the ambivalent deity named Zeus Melachios, who in this guise (linked to the Athenian Mysteries of Eleusis) was considered both a benificent figure, and a link with the Underworld.
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