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References to human sacrifice can be found in Greek historical accounts as well as mythology. The human sacrifice in mythology, the deus ex machina salvation in some versions of Iphigenia (who was about to be sacrificed by her father Agamemnon) and her replacement with a deer by the goddess Artemis, may be a vestigial memory of the abandonment and discrediting of the practice of human sacrifice among the Greeks in favour of animal sacrifice.[citation needed] In another myth that serves as a doublet of the Iphigenia story, Artemis demanded the sacrifice of Melanippus and her priestess Comaetho, who had defiled her temple.[1]