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
