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Daedalus gave his name, eponymously, to any Greek artificer and to many Greek contraptions that represented dextrous skill.

At Plataea there was a festival, the Daedala, in which a temporary wooden altar was fashioned, and an effigy was made from an oak-tree and dressed in bridal attire.

It was carried in a cart with a woman who acted as bridesmaid.

The image was called Daedale and the archaic ritual given an explanation through a myth to the purpose