A Thracian goddess. The cult of Kotys was worshipped by the Edonians, a tribe that lived around Mount Pangaeus.
The geographer Strabo described the Kotytian sacred rites as having the same Thracian and Phrygian elements as that of Bacchic revelry, similar to Bendideian rites. The Edonians played music which sounded like a roll of thunder from drums, and a frenzied shrill from stringed instruments.
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The Thracians were a people who lived north and east of Thessaly and Macedon. The land of Thrace reached the Black Sea in the north-east, and north all the way to the Danube river. The western border is unclear. The size of the Roman province of T...
Cybele or Kybele, known as the Great Mother of the Gods, was a goddess of Phrygian origin from northwest of Asia Minor. Cybele was essentially a mother goddess. She was also known by other names, such as Agdistis and Dindymene. Some would associat...
Mother goddess. Cybele (Kybele) was a Phrygian mother goddess who was worshipped in Greece and Rome. She was often equated with the two other Greek mother goddesses – Rhea and Demeter (Ceres). Cybele was so revered that she was often called "The M...
Cocidius was a Celtic-British goddess of hunting. A stone relief of her was found in Risingham, Yorkshire.
A-TA-NA PO-TI-NI-JA or Atana Potnia was the name listed on the Linear B tablets found in Knossos, Crete. Her name doesn't appear anywhere on the tablets from Pylos. Atana Potnia was probably The Mother Goddess. Atana Potnia was known as the Idaean...
For Agdistis, see Cybele in the Mother Goddesses.
A Thracian mother goddess. Bendis was often identified with the huntress goddess Artemis and the moon goddess Hecate. She was also the goddess of healing. Bendis first appeared in Athens during the Peloponnesian War, where she was Hellenised. An a...
Dionysia or the Dionysiac Mysteries was established throughout the Greek world. Dionysus (Διόνυσος) was the Greek god of wine, and also the god of fertility, such as vegetation and the fruitfulness of the vine. In the various sources of the Dionys...
Samothrace was one of the islands in the Thracian Sea (northern Aegean), north of Lemnos and Imbros. The island was inhabited by the Thracians and Samian colonists. The Pleiad Electra gave birth to Dardanus and Iasion. Zeus killed his own son Iasi...
Potnia theron or "Mistress of Animals" is the figure found more commonly in Minoan and Mycnenaean art than any other Potnia. She was also known as "Lady of Wild Things", "Mistress of Wild Beasts", and several other similar titles. It should be not...