Daduchos

{{Short description|Epithet of Artemis}} '''Daduchos''' or '''Daduchus''', or '''Dadouchos''' ({{IPAc-en|d|ə|'|d|j|uː|k|ə|s}};<ref>{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/websterspractica00we/page/548/mode/2up |page=548 |title=A Practical Dictionary of the English Language|editor1-first=Dorsey |editor1-last=Gardner |editor2-first=Noah |editor2-last=Porter|publisher=Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor & Co. |location=New York |year=1884}}</ref> {{langx|grc|δᾳδοῦχος}} "torch-bearer", from δᾶις+ἔχω) is an epithet of Artemis, and notably of Demeter seeking her lost daughter (Persephone) with a torch. It was also an epithet of Hekate,<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal|last=MORELLI|first=DONATO|date=1959|title=Parte Prima: FONTI|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/24172474|journal=Studi Classici e Orientali|volume=8|pages=1–73|jstor=24172474 |issn=0081-6124}}</ref> a goddess frequently associated with torches. This title was given in the Rhodes Island in Greece.<ref name=":0" /> It was also the title of the second priest (ranking after the Hierophant) at the Eleusinian Mysteries, an office inherited in several families of Athens.

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==Sources== *Eleusis By Karl Kerényi Archetypal Image of Mother and Daughter Page 78 {{ISBN|0-691-01915-0}}

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