Geography/Culture: Greek. Arcadian: Danaan of Argos.
Linguistic Note: the Germanic word alpdrucken, the nightmare or incubus, is connected with Her name and the Greek words alphos, dull-white leprosy, (Latin albus) and alphiton, pearl-barley.
Description: She seems to have originally been White Goddess of the barley flour; Hag of the mill; Deliveress from guilt; Lady of the Nine Heights, the clifftops of perpetual snow; Queen of Spring; Mother of the Willow; fearful-faced Goddess of Destiny.
In classical times She degenerated into a nursery bug-bear.
To Whom Sacred: sow; the Irish Beth-luis-nion writing system.
Invocations, Pleas, Hymns and Other Homage to HER: Alphito.

Titles/Variants, etc:
• Her name is related to Albina, White-Goddess, below.
• Cardea, The-Hinge, is also called Alphito, White-Goddess.
• This is a title of Danae, She-Who-Judges', as barley Goddess.
• Possibly a form of Demeter, Barley-Mother.
• Alphito, White-Goddess, is said to be the same Goddess as Io, Exalted-Moon, in another aspect.
• She is also called Leprea, Scabby, below.
• See also Leucothea, White-Goddess, linked with Ino, She-Who-Makes-Sinewy.
• Possibly a form of Persephoneia, DBringer-of-Destruction.

Geography/Culture: Roman.
Linguistic Note: Her name accounts for the Germanic words: elven, an elf-woman; alb, elf. [Middle English albe, from Old English, from Medieval Latin alba, white, feminine of Latin albus, white. See albho- below.] Related English word: albino, albion, alb. Important derivatives are: elf, oaf, albino, album, auburn, daub. albho- White. 1.a. ELF, from Old English ælf, elf; b. OAF, from Old Norse alfr, elf; c. OBERON, from Old French Auberon, from a source akin to Old High German Alberich. a, b, and c all possibly from Germanic *albiz, *albaz, if meaning “white ghostly apparitions.” 2. ELFIN, from Old English -elfen, elf, possibly from Germanic *albinj½. 3. ABELE, ALB, ALBEDO, ALBESCENT, ALBINO, ALBITE, ALBUM, ALBUMEN, AUBADE, AUBURN; DAUB, from Latin albus, white.
Description: Eponym of the earliest name for Britain: Albion; Eponym of the river Elbe (Albis in Latin).

Titles/Variants, etc:
• Eldest of the Danaides, Those-Who-Judge, Who are linked with Telchines, Enchanters.

Geography/Culture: Greek. Letrini, Ortygia.
Description: White Goddess of the moon.
To Whom Sacred: gypsum, white-clay.
Male Associate: She eluded the pursuit of Alpheius by daubing Her face with gypsum. (This story probably arose in explanation of the fact that the priestesses of Artemis-Alpheia at Letrini and Ortygia daubed their faces with gypsum in imitation of the moon's white disk, an honoring of the White-Goddess.)

Titles/Variants, etc:
• Arethusa, Waterer, below, was also pursued by Alpheius .
• Sur-title of Artemis, High-Source-of-Water.

Geography/Culture: Greek.
Linguistic Note: from alfita, barley-meal {but in what language? Greek?}. Related words: Alpheus, the principal river in the Peloponese.

Titles/Variants, etc:
• A title of Ariadne, High-Fruitful-Mother-of-the-Barley, Who is linked with Erigone, Plentiful-Offspring. It is composed of the first and last Greek characters of Her name, alpha and eta.

Geography/Culture: Sicilian Greek: Elis, Syracuse, Ortygia.
Linguistic Note: The name is perhaps from ardusa, the waterer.
Description: White Goddess of the moon, spring-waters and immortality; She Who is the source of the poet's inspiration.
To Whom Sacred: dolphin; gypsum (a white-clay with which Her priestesses daubed their faces in honor of the moon).
Male Associate: As a wood nymph She was pursued by the god Alpheius, Whiteish. She appealed to Artemis, High-Source-of-Water, for help. Artemis hid Her in an enfolding mist and transformed Her into a spring. He became a river. Son Eleutha, by Apollo, Destroyer.

Titles/Variants, etc:
• Daughter of Alcyone, Queen-of-Who-Wards-Off-Evil.
• Variant: Arethus.
• She was sometimes included in the ninefold Mousae, Inspirers, as Goddess of pastoral poetry.

Geography/Culture: Greek: Lepreus.
Linguistic Note: related English words: leper, leprosy.
Description: Foundress and Eponym of the leper-colony town Lepreus, close by the river Alpheus; Her sole prerogative to inflict or heal leprosy.
To Whom Sacred: the Thank-offering for a cure should be a measure of barley; {the antipathes stone}.

Titles/Variants, etc:
• See also Orthia, Upright, She too causes and cures leprosy.