Potnia
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potnia-320-17851505
title:
Potnia
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Potnia is an Ancient Greek word for "Mistress, Lady" and a title of a goddess. The word was inherited by Classical Greek from Mycenean Greek with the same meaning and it was applied to several goddesses. A similar word is the title Despoina, "the mistress", which was given to the nameless chthonic goddess of the mysteries of Arcadian cult. She was later conflated with Kore (Persephone), "the maiden", the goddess of the Eleusinian Mysteries, in a life-death rebirth cycle which leads the neophyte
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Ancient Greek feminine title
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potnia
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2024-03-01T12:49:07Z
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