%0 Journal Article %T Epimorphisms from 2-bridge link groups onto Heckoid groups (I) %A Donghi Lee %A Makoto Sakuma %J Mathematics %D 2012 %I arXiv %X Riley "defined" the Heckoid groups for 2-bridge links as Kleinian groups, with nontrivial torsion, generated by two parabolic transformations, and he constructed an infinite family of epimorphisms from 2-bridge link groups onto Heckoid groups. In this paper, we make Riley's definition explicit, and give a systematic construction of epimorphisms from 2-bridge link groups onto Heckoid groups, generalizing Riley's construction. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/1205.4631v3