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goddess of fertility and childbirth of Cretan origin. The cave is rectangular, 64 m long and 9-12 m wide. After the entrance there is an antechamber, which leads to a rectangular room surrounded by cylindrical stalagmites which were probably worshipped by the pilgrims. At the cave's mouth there is a
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