Geography/Culture: Roman (from Arcadia).
Description: Triple muse Goddess of fountains, healing, childbirth and prophesy; Creatrix of the Latin calendar alphabet (adopting it from the thirteen-consonant Greek alphabet); Protectress of women in childbirth; She Who chose the site of the city Pallantium, on the hill beside the river Tiber, later called Mount Palatine.
Carmenta, Revealer-of-Wisdom, was also the name of a course of Her Sibylline priestesses each course lasting 110 years. At the end of a course irregularities in the solar calendar were corrected by intercalcation, and saecular games were held. Her priestesses gave oracles in Her name.
To Whom Sacred: crane (which symbolizes the alphabetical secret); the 5 vowels O, U, E, A, I; the consonants B an T (because each of these calendar consonants introduced one half of Her year, as divided between the sacred king and his tanist); the number 110; the Flamines (Her priests).
Festival: Perhaps the Carmentalia -- January 11. (Also celebrated in honour of Diuturna). During this festival She was addressed by Her celebrants as Postvorta, She-Who-Looks-Toward-the-Future, and Antevorta, She-Who-Looks-Toward-the-Past.
Male Associates: son Evander by Mercury.

Titles/Variants, etc:
• Her festive two-face titles are the same as those of Anna-Perenna, Everlasting-Queen, Who is linked with Annona, Fruitful-Year.
• The Mother of Cretan Britomartis, Sweet-Maiden, is Carme, ----, could there be an etymological connection with the name Carmenta? or the name of the Carmenae?
• Carmenta, Revealer-of-Wisdom, Herself is one of the Carmenae, below.
• The fourth Carmenta (in the sense of a course of Sibylline priestesses) was Ancient Italian Egeria, She-of-the-Black-Poplar.
• Variant: Carmentes.
• Variant: Carmentis.
• The Carmentalia festival is said to be in honor of Etruscan Diuturna, ----, (Who is linked under the form Juturna). and Carmenta, Revealer-of-Wisdom, is associated with fountains as is Diuturna, ----, perhaps therefore, Diuturna is a title of Carmenta, or an aspect of Her, or perhaps a Carmenae.
• She may have developed from Carian Car, {Queen-Bee}.
• Perhaps She may be identified with Greek Artemis-Caryatis, She-of-the-Nut-Tree, who is linked with Metis, Counsel.
• Perhaps She is to be identified with Roman Maia, Grandmother, Who is linked with Celtic Rosmerta, {Dew-of-the-Sea}.
• Identified by some with Roman Minerva, Full-of-Thought.
• Identified with Arcadian Greek Nicostrata, Victorious-Army, below.
• The title of Her priestesses may have been Sibylla, below.
• The Romans considered Themis, Steadfast-One, qv, to be Her Greek equivalent.
• Aeolian Greeks called Her Thetis, Disposer,

Geography/Culture: Ancient Italian, Roman.
Linguistic Note: The meaning of Their name is based on the found meaning of Carmenta's name.
Description: Goddesses of springs, fountains and prophesy.

Titles/Variants, etc:
• The two-faces of Anna-Perenna, Everlasting-Queen, (Who is linked with Annona, Fruitful-Year), Antevorta, She-Who-Looks-Toward-the-Past, and Postvorta, She-Who-Looks-Toward-the-Future, are sometimes called Carmenae.
• Carmenta Herself is sometimes called Carmenae {though I would expect this to be a plural form of Her}.
• Perhaps Juturna, ----, is a Carmenae, Revealer-of-Wisdom.
• Perhaps Egeria, She-0f-the-Black-Poplar, is a Carmenae.

Geography/Culture: Greek: Arcadia.
Male Associates: son Evander by Hermes.

Titles/Variants, etc:
• Greek Nicostrata is identified with Roman: Carmenta. Revealer-of-Wisdom, {Presumably since their sons' name is Evander and Roman Mercury is identified with Greek Hermes. Or perhaps Nicostrata was Carmenta's pre-Roman name.}
• Variant: Nicostrate.
• The variant is an alternate name for Themis, Steadfast-One. The Romans also identified Themis, Steadfast-One, with Carmenta, Revealer-of-Wisdom.

Geography/Culture: Greek > Roman. There were oracular shrines at: Aegira, Cimmeria, Cumae (near Naples; though to have been the seat of the first Greek colony in Italy, 9th or 8th century BCE), Delphi, Erythrae, Libya, Marpessa, Persia, Phrygia, Samos and Tibur. They may have all been caves, or caverns, sacred to Earth.
Linguistic Note: Greek Sigma-iota-beta-upsilon-lambda-lambda-alpha, (which the Romans transcribed as Sibylla), 'a prophetess'. The derivation is uncertain according to Liddell & Scott. The meanings of 'Wise-One', 'Wise-Woman' and 'She-Who-Prophesies' are probably all brief descriptions rather than definitions of Her name. I can no longer find my original source for the meaning 'Cavern-Dweller', but think it must have come from Robert Graves. It would also seem to be a brief description, in this case of what he believed about Sibyllas. Perhaps the name is derived from Babylonian Subultu, '----', the name of the constellation called Virgo in the West, and possibly the title of a Goddess.
Description: Earth Goddess; She Who sends forth messages of ambiguity and prophesy from Her echoing caverns through the mouths of Her mortal incarnations.
As Her mortal incarnations, the oracular priestesses of Her shrines were known by Her name, and in Her name conjure up the spirits of the dead, and intercede with the Deities on behalf of other mortals. They were probably elderly women.
To Whom Sacred: bull's blood (Her Sibylla, ie: priestesses, drank it to induce prophetic trances); mountain caves (caves were believed to be the entrance to the underworld); for the Romans the Sibylline Books; tripod (on which the Sibylla sat when communing with the Goddess and delivering oracles).

Titles/Variants, etc:
• A course of Sybilline priestesses was called a Carmenta, Revealer-of-Wisdom, above.
• It has been suggested the oracular spirit of Cybele, She-of-the-Axe, was expressed through and by priestesses who bore this title. {I surmise the traditional (for English speakers) pronunciation of Cybele, as SYB6LE, suggested the suggestion. The Greeks spelt Cybele 's name beginning with K for kappa}.
• The Persian Sibylla was called the Hellespontine. The Erythraean Sibylla, Cavern-Dweller, was identified with Herophile, Dear-to-Hera, Who was also known as the Libyan Sibylla, Cavern-Dweller.
• Marpessa, Snatcher, was the name of the Marpessan Sibylla.
• The Egyptian, Babylonian and/or Palestinian Sibylla, Cavern-Dwellers, were called Sabbe, S*BA, ----.
• Sibyl, anglecized form, probably based on the Latin form.
• Apparently a variant: Sibylia, SYBÜLY1, this is a title of Artemis, High-Source-of-Water.
• As well as the Hellespontine, the Persian Sibylla, Cavern-Dweller, was also called the Trojan.

The Cumaean Sibylla, Cavern-Dweller, is also called:
• Amalthea, Tender.
• Deiphobae, Scaring-the-spoiler.
• She is known as: Demo, DAMO, {Of-the-People}.
• and Demophile, DAMOFELA, {Dear-to-the-People}
• It is said She is called Herophile, Dear-to-Hera, but other sources say Herophile, was the name of the Libyan Sibylla, Cavern-Dweller, (Who is linked with Lamashtu, Mother-of-Deities).
• Also called Phemonoe, FAMONOA, {Famous}.
• Norse Sif, ----, is equated with Her.