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- referred to in various Linear B inscriptions. At Olympia they were called Despoinai (Δέσποιναι). The epithet, Despoina, is possibly related to the Mycenean...
- fertility with her daughter ****phone. Demeter and ****phone were called Despoinai (the mistresses) and Demeters. This duality was also used in the classical...
- harvest goddess. In Arcadia, Demeter and ****phone were often called Despoinai (Δέσποιναι, "the mistresses"). They are the two Great Goddesses of the...
- At Olympia the cult of "Artemis Agoraea" was related to the cult of Despoinai. (The double named goddesses Demeter and ****phone). Agrotera, the huntress...
- the Arcadian cults. According to Pausanias at Olympia they were called Despoinai ("mistresses", plural of Despoina). Demeter and ****phone were also called...
- Arion). Kore and Despoina were known together with their mother Demeter as Despoinai, "the Mistresses", or **** Theai, "Great Goddesses". Sometimes Demeter's...