Aphaia
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Aphaia was a Greek goddess who was worshipped almost exclusively at a single sanctuary on the island of Aegina in the Saronic Gulf.
Temple of Aphaia on the island of Aegina.
Britomartis
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Britomartis was a Greek goddess of mountains, nets, and hunting who was primarily worshipped on the island of Crete. She was sometimes described as a nymph, but she was more commonly conflated or sync
Aphaia
…fertility and the agricultural cycle. Under the later Athenian hegemony she came to be identified with the goddesses Athena and Artemis and with the nymph Britomartis as well, by the 2nd century CE, the time of Pausanias: On Aegina as one goes toward the mountain of Zeus, god of all the Hellenes, the sanctuary of…
The Drowning of Britomartis tapestry, probably designed by Jean Cousin the Elder
Walter Crane - Britomart (1900)
Pygmalion
Apollo and Daphne