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Aphacitis
Aphacitis (Ancient Greek: Ἀφακῖτις) was an epithet of the goddess Aphrodite from Greek mythology, derived from the town of Aphaca (modern Afqa) in Coele-Syria, where she had a celebrated temple with an oracle, which was destroyed by the command of the emperor Constantine.
At the temple there was a small pool into which worshippers would throw offerings. If the offerings sank, it was proof they were acceptable to Aphrodite. Delegations would be sent from quite far away to the shrine during festivals to offer donations to the goddess here.
13 branches of this group, most-observed first
White-spotted Emesis
speciesEmesis aurimna
Pale Emesis
speciesEmesis vulpina
Emesis diogenia
speciesEmesis diogenia
Slaty Tanmark
speciesEmesis lucinda
Emesis fastidiosa
speciesEmesis fastidiosa
Emesis spreta
speciesEmesis spreta
Emesis condigna
speciesEmesis condigna
Emesis castigata
speciesEmesis castigata
Emesis heteroclita
speciesEmesis heteroclita
Emesis eurydice
speciesEmesis eurydice
Emesis glaucescens
speciesEmesis glaucescens
Emesis liodes
speciesEmesis liodes
Emesis opaca
speciesEmesis opaca
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 1226087.