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Religion in ancient Athens

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Bendis
thumb|right|Artemis Bendis, moulded terracotta figurine, perhaps from Tanagra, BC ([[Louvre)]]
Aglaurus, daughter of Cecrops
daughter of Cecrops I in Greek mythology
Cotys
thumb|Greek vase painting depicting a goddess, probably either Bendis or Kotys, adorned in Thracian garb approaching a seated [[Apollo. Red-figure bell-shaped krater by the Bendis Painter, –370 BCE]]Kotys ( '), also called Kotytto' (Κοτυττώ), was a Thracian goddess whose festival, the Cotyttia'', resembled that of the Phrygian Cybele, and was celebrated on hills with riotous proceedings and orgiastic rites, especially at night.
Athenian sacred ships
state triremes with religious functions in Athens
Acratopotes
In Greek mythology, Acratopotes (Ancient Greek: ), the drinker of unmixed (as in not diluted with water) wine, was a hero worshiped in Munychia in Attica. According to Pausanias, who calls him simply Acratus, he was one of the divine companions of Dionysus, who was worshiped at Attica. Pausanias saw his image at Athens in the house of Polytion, where it was fixed in the wall.
Cyamites
Cyamites or Kyamites () from κύαμος "bean", was a hero in ancient Greek religion, worshiped locally in Athens.
Rhapso
In Greek mythology, Rhapso () was a nymph or a minor goddess worshipped at Athens. She is known solely from an inscription of the 4th century BCE, found at Phalerum. Her name apparently derives from the Greek verb meaning "to sew" or "to stitch".
Orthanes
In ancient Greek religion and mythology, Orthanes or Orthannes () is a minor fertility and phallic god worshipped in Athens and the island of Imbros in the Aegean Sea. Little is known about Orthanes, his mythology and cult. Orthanes was seen as an ithyphallic god in the likes of Priapus, the fertility god with the enlarged genitalia. His imagery was used on coins from Imbros.
Agrotera
Agrotera (, "the huntress") was an epithet of the Greek goddess Artemis, the most important goddess to Attic hunters.