Geography/Culture: Cretan.
Description: Goddess of fertility, nature, (perhaps the moon), the sea, birth and health; Matroness of fishermen, sailors and hunters; Inspirer of the invention of fishing-nets.
To Whom Sacred: fish; snake; the number nine (She was pursued for nine months); fishing-net; arrows.
Male Associate: pursuer, Minos.

Titles/Variants, etc:
• She is also called Aphaia, Vanisher, below.
• And identified with Artemis, High-Source-of-Water.
• Variant Britomart.
• She is Daughter of Carme, , below.
• Perhaps title Dictynna, , below.
• Britomartis is sometimes identified with Hecate, She-Who-Works-From-Afar.

Geography/Culture: Greek: the Island of Aigina in the Saronic Gulf, off Attica.
Linguistic Note: from Greek alpha-gamma-rho- omikron-sigma, (agros), wild-goat.
Description: Goddess of abundance, water, lustiness and justice; Eponym of an Island.
Male Associates: son, Aeacus, by Zeus, who carried Her off to the island which bears Her name. Her father was the river God Asopus.

Titles/Variants, etc:
• Probably Aphaia, Vanisher, (below), is the proper name of this Goddess.
• Transcription variant Aigina.
• Daughter of Metope, Forefront, Who is linked with Antiope, Confronting.

Geography/Culture: Greek: the island of Aegina.
Linguistic Note: Her name is of Semitic origin.
Description: Goddess of fish, the water they live in and the moon.
To Whom Sacred: {fish; aquarium; artificial ponds.}

Titles/Variants, etc:
• Roman transliteration variant Aphaea.
• The name of Britomartis, , (above), in Aegina.

Geography/Culture: Cretan?

Titles/Variants, etc:
• Mother of Britomartis, .
• Perhaps etymologically related to the Carmenae, and Carmenta, .

Geography/Culture: Cretan.
Linguistic Note: from Greek diktuon, a casting-net, a net, a hunting-net.
Description: Goddess of nature, fertility, hunting and fishing; Inspirer of the invention of fishing nets.

Titles/Variants, etc:
• Adopted as title of: Artemis, [?\cyc\a\Artemis], `High-Source-of-Water'.
• Identified with (or title of): Britomartis, `Sweet-Maiden'.
• She may have been assimilated to Britomartis, and so become a title.