This deity was worshipped as Laphria, complete with holocausts of wild animals, after Oineus refused to make offerings to her, causing this Potnia Thauron, or Mistress of Beasts, to dispatch the Kalydonian Boar.
A temple to this deity as Limnatis was the site of the first battle between Messenians and Spartans, when the latter attacked the temple with ephebes dressed as women. Kallimakhos tells that this deity was worshipped as Hegemone in Ambrakia after she slew Phalaikos, using a lion cub, and an Athenian myth says that this deity was appeased at Brauron by teen girls "playing the bear". This deity was worshipped as Laphria, complete with holocausts of wild animals, after Oineus refused to make offerings to her, causing this Potnia Thauron, or Mistress of Beasts, to dispatch the Kalydonian Boar. Another myth explains that this goddess helps women in childbirth, just as she aided her own mother with the birth of her brother. For 10 points, name this daughter of Leto and sister of Apollo.
A temple to this deity as Limnatis was the site of the first battle between Messenians and Spartans, when the latter attacked the temple with ephebes dressed as women.
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