 Known female Telchines were Makelo, Dexithea (one of Damon's daughters), Halia and probably Lysagora (the attesting text is severely damaged).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 or they proceeded from Rhodes to Crete and Boeotia.Rhodes, and in it the three towns of Cameirus, Ialysos, and Lindos (whence the Telchines are called "Ialysii"), which was their principal seat and was named after them Telchinis (Sicyon also was called "Telchinia") and by some accounts, their children were highly worshiped as gods in the said three ancient Rhodian towns.