Editing Telchines (section)

=== Ministers of gods ===
The Telchines were regarded as the cultivators of the soil and ministers of the gods and as such they came from Crete to Cyprus and from thence to Rhodes<ref name=":4">[[Strabo]], ''[[Geographica]]'' 14.2.7</ref> or they proceeded from Rhodes to Crete and [[Boeotia]].<ref name=":5">[[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], 9.19.1</ref> Rhodes, and in it the three towns of [[Camirus|Cameirus]], [[Ialysos]], and [[Lindos]] (whence the Telchines are called ''Ialysii''<ref>Ovid, ''[[Metamorphoses]]'' 7.365</ref>), which was their principal seat and was named after them Telchinis<ref name=":4" /> ([[Sicyon]] also was called ''Telchinia''<ref>Eustathius ad Homer p. 291</ref>) and by some accounts, their children were highly worshiped as gods in the said three ancient Rhodian towns. The Telchines abandoned their homes because they foresaw that the island would be inundated and thence they scattered in different directions; Lycus went to [[Lycia]], where he built the temple of the [[Lycian Apollo]]. This god had been worshiped by them at Lindos (Apollôn Telchinios) and [[Hera]] at Ialysos and Cameiros (Hêra telchinia);<ref name=":6">Diodorus Siculus, [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/5D*.html#55.2 5.55.2]</ref> and [[Athena]] at [[Teumessus]] in Boeotia bore the surname of Telchinia.<ref name=":5" /> [[Nymph]]s also are called after them Telchiniae.