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Potnia
Potnia is an Ancient Greek word for "Mistress, Lady" and a title of a goddess. The word was inherited by Classical Greek from Mycenean Greek with the same meaning and it was applied to several goddesses. A similar word is the title Despoina, "the mistress", which was given to the nameless chthonic goddess of the mysteries of Arcadian cult. She was later conflated with Kore (Persephone), "the maid", the goddess of the Eleusinian mysteries, in a...
9 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Potnia diringshofeni
speciesPotnia diringshofeni
Potnia gladiator
speciesPotnia gladiator
Potnia brevicornis
speciesPotnia brevicornis
Potnia affinis
speciesPotnia affinis
Potnia dubia
speciesPotnia dubia
Potnia miracyae
speciesPotnia miracyae
Potnia jacula
speciesPotnia jacula
Potnia spatulata
speciesPotnia spatulata
Potnia rectispina
speciesPotnia rectispina
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the stacks
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 702610.