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After that day, the Goddess and her children began to live
around the frog lake. Hearing the frog story, the public directly
accepts her as their own god, both the mother goddess Leto
and her two children Artemis and Apollo.

Fig.10: Leto and the Frogs. Francesco Trevasani (1656-1746)

“Leto, who drank water and washed her children, Determined
Xanthos as the holy place of Apollo. He named the region
known as Tremilis as Lycia because of the wolves leading it”
(Ant. Lib. Met. Syn. 35).

Fig.11: Reconstruction Trial of Temples in the Letoon Sanctuary.
From left to right; Leto, Artemis, Apollo (Courtils 2003, fig.55).

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