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- Potniae or Potniai (Ancient Gr****: Πότνιαι) was a village of ancient Boeotia, on the road from Thebes to Plataea, distant 10 stadia from the former city...
- lionesses (note the tufted tails) Wikimedia Commons has media related to Potniai theron. Master of Animals Inara (goddess) Iphigenia Potnia "πότνια - Ancient...
- po-ti-ni-ja, which probably represents the Mycenaean Gr****, Daburinthoio potniai, "to the mistress of the Labyrinth," recording the distribution of one...
- religion these were related to the goddess Demeter. In Gr**** religion potniai(mistresses) appear in plural (like the Erinyes) and are closely related...
- Agrarian magic similar to the one used in Thesmophoria and in the cult of the potniai (Cabeirian). Ephesos : Cult of Demeter and Kore, celebrated at night-time...
- "Mycenean age", p. 159-161. "In Gr**** po****r religion, the chthonic Potniai (Wan****oi) and the Erinyes are closely related to the Eleusinian Demeter":Dietrich...