The Stolen Goddess

Amazon: Ducalion finds that the road to Hades is paved with bad intentions when he must venture to the death lands in search of a kidnapped goddess. From the back cover of the DAW first edition: "...Richard Purtill again explores the wonders of pre-Grecian Kaphtu in this unusual flight of the imagination. This is the story of Ducalion of strange parentage and of his initiation into the bull dances and mystic rites of a lost civilization and the intrigues of a court where gods and half-gods were real powers to be reckoned with. This is the story of the quest which was set upon him by Apollo himself, and of a descent into the fabled regions of darkness and shadow where the lord of the deathlands had taken the daughter of a jealous goddess."