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List of Gods : "Orestes" - 3 records

Name ▲▼	Origin ▲▼	Description ▲▼
"Erigone"	Greek	A daughter of Aegisthus and Clytaemnestra, and by Orestes the mother of Penthilus. Greek
Goddess name "Taurica"	Greece	the Taurian goddess, commonly called Artemis. Her image was believed to have been carried from Tauris by Orestes and Iphigenia, and to have been conveyed to Brauron, Sparta, or Aricia. The worship of this Taurian goddess, who was identified with Artemis and Iphigenia, was carried on with orgiastic rites and human sacrifices, and seems to have been very ancient in Greece.
King name "Tisamenus"	Greek	A son of Orestes and Hermione, was king of Argos, but was deprived of his kingdom when the Heracleidae invaded Peloponnesus. (Apollodorus. ii) He was slain in a battle against the Heracleidae (Apollodorus. ii). Greek

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