List of Mycenaean deities

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This is a list of Mycenaean deities and the way they are spelled in Linear B.

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Gods [edit]

  • Ares - god of war? (Linear B: a-re)[1]
  • possibly Dionysus, context is unclear (Linear B: di-wo-nu-so).[2][3]
  • Drimios - unknown son of Zeus[4] or the name of a man or a hero receiving an offering[5] (Linear B: di-ri-mi-jo).
  • Marineus - unknown god (Linear B: ma-ri-ne-jo)[9]
  • Poseidon - chief deity (Linear B: po-se-da-o and po-se-da-wo-ne)
    • epithet: "Earthshaker” (Linear B: e-ne-si-da-o-ne)
  • Zeus - god of the sky (Linear B: di-we and di-wo)[12]
  • "Lord" - house deity?[13] (Linear B: do-po-ta)[14]

Goddesses [edit]

Potnia - “Mistress” or “Lady”, may be used as an epithet for many deities, but also shows up as a single deity

  • Mistress Athena (Linear B: a-ta-na po-ti-ni-ja)
  • Precursor of Leto or an epithet of Demeter or Athena (Linear B: po-ti-ni-ja i-qe-ja)[15]
  • "Under" or "to weave" Mistress - (Linear B: u-po-jo po-ti-ni-ja)
  • Mistress of Asia or epithet of Artemis - (Linear B: po-ti-ni-ja a-si-wi-ja)
  • Potnia Hippeia - (Linear B: Po-ti-ni-ja i-qe-ja)
  • Mistress of (unknown place name) – (Linear B: ?-a-ke-si po-ti-ni-ja)
  • Mistress of the labyrinth (Linear B: da-pu-ri-to-jo po-ti-ni-ja)
  • Uncertain epithet – (Linear B: ne-wo-pe-o po-ti-ni-ja)
  • Artemis - goddess of mountains and hunting (Linear B: a-te-mi-to and a-ti-mi-te).[16]
  • Demeter
    • epithet: Mistress of Grain[18] (Linear B: si-to-po-ti-ni-ja)
  • Sphagianeia - Unknown local goddess found at Pylos (Linear B: pa-ki-ja-ni-ja)[19]
  • Pereswa - generally interpreted as a dove goddess or an early form of Persephone[20] (Linear B: pe-re-sa-wa)[21]
  • Qorasia - unknown goddess or possibly Teiresias(Linear B: qo-ra-si-ja)[24]
  • Doqeia(?) - possibly an unknown goddess or a female name (Linear B: do-qe-ja)[25]
  • Diwia - possibly the female counterpart of Zeus, possibly Dione in later Greek (Linear B: di-u-ja)
  • Hera - (Linear B: e-ra)
    • epithet: (Linear B: e-re-wi-jo po-ti-ni-ja)[28]
  • Qowia - unknown deity, possibly meaning “she of the cow", possibly connected with the PIE Gwouwindā (Linear B: qo-wi-ja)[29]
  • Komawenteia - unknown deity, possibly meaning "long-haired" (Linear B: ko-ma-we-te-ja)
  • Posidaeia - possibly the female counterpart of Poseidon (Linear B: po-si-da-e-ja)

Heroes/mortals [edit]

  • Thrice-Hero (Tris-Heros) (Linear B: t-ri-se-ro-e) - possibly Triptolemus[31]
  • Anemos Iereia, "priestess of the Winds" - possibly the name of a goddess (Linear B: a-ne-mo-i-je-re-ja)
  • "Thirsty ones" (the dead) - (Linear B: di-pi-si-jo-i)[33]

References [edit]

  1. ^ Palaeoleicon, Word study tool of ancient languages
  2. ^ John Chadwick, The Mycenaean World, Cambridge University Press, 1976, 99ff: "But Dionysos surprisingly appears twice at Pylos, in the form Diwonusos, both times irritatingly enough on fragments, so that we have no means of verifying his divinity."
  3. ^ Palaeolexicon, Word study tool of ancient languages
  4. ^ "Mycenaean society and its collapse". Retrieved 2012-04-27. 
  5. ^ Chadwick, John and Michael Ventris, 1973 Documents in Mycenaean Greek
  6. ^ [1], The Mycenaeans
  7. ^ [2], The Mycenaean World
  8. ^ Ramón, J.L. García, 2011 A Companion to Linear B: Mycenaean Greek Texts and their World "Mycenaean Onomastics"
  9. ^ [3], The Knossos Labyrinth
  10. ^ [4], The Mycenaeans
  11. ^ Palaeolexicon, Word study tool of ancient languages
  12. ^ Palaeolexicon, Word study tool of ancient languages
  13. ^ "Mycenaean society and its collapse". Retrieved 2012-04-27. 
  14. ^ [5], From Artemis to Diana: The Goddess of Man and Beast
  15. ^ [6], Po-ti-ni-ja
  16. ^ John Chadwick and Lydia Baumbach, "The Mycenaean Greek Vocabulary" Glotta, 41.3./4. (1963:157-271) p. 176f, s.v. Ἂρτεμις, a-te-mi-to- (genitive); C. Souvinous, "A-TE-MI-TO and A-TI-MI-TE", Kadmos9 1970:42-47; T. Christidis, "Further remarks on A-TE-MI-TO and A-TI-MI-TE", Kadmos 11 :125-28; Palaeolexicon, Word study tool of ancient languages;
  17. ^ [7], Mother Goddesses
  18. ^ "Linear B Lexicon: si-to-po-ti-ni-ja". Retrieved 2012-09-19. 
  19. ^ [8], Mycenaean and Late Cycladic Religion and Religious Architecture
  20. ^ [9], Greek Religion
  21. ^ [10], The Knossos Labyrinth: A New View of the Palace of Minos at Knossos
  22. ^ [11], From Artemis to Diana: The Goddess of Man and Beast
  23. ^ [12], The Knossos Labyrinth: A New View of the Palace of Minos at Knossos
  24. ^ [13], From Artemis to Diana: The Goddess of Man and Beast
  25. ^ [14], From Artemis to Diana: The Goddess of Man and Beast
  26. ^ [15], Mycenaean and Late Cycladic Religion and Religious Architecture
  27. ^ "Linear B Lexicon: e-re-u-ti-ja". Retrieved 2012-07-18. 
  28. ^ http://minoan.deaditerranean.com/resources/linear-b-sign-groups/po/po-ti-ni-ja/, Po-ti-ni-ja
  29. ^ [16], The Mycenaean World
  30. ^ Chadwick, John and Micheal Ventris, 1973 Documents in Mycenaean Greek
  31. ^ "Thrice-Hero". Retrieved 2012-04-27. 
  32. ^ Palaeolexicon, Word study tool of ancient languages
  33. ^ [17], Proceedings of the Cambridge Colloquium on Mycenaean Studies
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