Condylea
among the
Arcadian
hills, and
there
accordingly
she went
by the
name of
the Hanged
One.
Indeed a
trace of a
similar
rite may
perhaps be
detected
even at
Ephesus,
the most
famous of
her
sanctuaries,
in the
legend of
a woman
who hanged
herself
and was
thereupon
dressed by
the
compassionate
goddess in
her own
divine
garb and
called by
the name
of Hecate.
Similarly,
at Melite
in Phthia,
a story
was told
of a girl
named
Aspalis
who hanged
herself,
