Tauric Diana
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The Tauric Diana is a manifestation of the goddess Diana. A bloody ritual ascribed to her involved sacrificing every stranger who landed on the shore on her altar. When transported to Italy, the rite of human sacrifice assumed a milder form.
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“bringing with him the image of the Tauric Diana hidden in a mound of sticks. After his death, the myth has it, his bones were transported from Aricia to Rome and buried in front of the Temple of Saturn, on the Capitoline slope, beside the Temple of Concord. The bloody ritual which legend ascribed to the Tauric Diana”
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