Leto answered the prayer and on the instant Leucippos was transformed into a masculine youth. Hairs pushed through where they should on a male, the correct bulges appeared, the incorrect bulges disappeared. Lampros was none the wiser and they all lived happily ever after. For generations after this, the city of Phaestos celebrated a festival they called the Ekdusia.188 In this ritual all young Phaestian boys lived amongst women and girls, wore female clothes, and had to swear an oath of citizenship before they could graduate from their agela, or youth corps, and acquire full male dress and
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