![]() ![]() Its hypothetical Proto-Indo-European (PIE) form * pot-nih a-, "mistress", "lady", "wife", is the feminine counterpart to *pótis, "husband" cf. Potnia ( Greek: πότνια, "mistress") is a poetic title of honour, used chiefly in addressing females, whether goddesses or women its masculine analogue is posis ( πόσις). Karl Kerenyi identifies Kore with the nameless "Mistress of the labyrinth", who probably presided over the palace of Knossos in Minoan Crete. 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 from death into life and immortality. A similar word is the title Despoina, "the mistress", which was given to the nameless chthonic goddess of the mysteries of Arcadian cult. The word was inherited by Classical Greek from Mycenean Greek with the same meaning and it was applied to several goddesses. Potnia is an Ancient Greek word for "Mistress, Lady" and a title of a goddess. Artemis Orthia in the stance of Potnia Theron on an archaic ivory ( National Archaeological Museum of Athens) ![]()
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