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been a

substitute

for

hanging an

image or a

human

representative

of

Artemis.

Again, in

Rhodes the

fair Helen

was

worshipped

under the

title of

Helen of

the Tree,

because

the queen

of the

island had

caused her

handmaids,

disguised

as Furies,

to string

her up to

a bough.

That the

Asiatic

Greeks

sacrificed

animals in

this

fashion is

proved by

coins of

Ilium,

which

represent

an ox or

cow

hanging on

a tree and

stabbed

with a

knife by a

man, who

sits among