Geography/Culture: Celtic: Continental Gauls, Roman times.
Description: Triple Goddess; Divine Sorceress; Ruler of earth's and of humanity's fruitfulness; Those Who dispense gifts to people and blessings to children and young people; Those Who are associated with the giving of names.
To Whom Sacred: flowers; baskets of fruit; cornucopia; babies.
Iconography: They are usually represented seated, surrounded by children, or fruit.

Titles/Variants, etc:
• Epona, , (qv), is often associated with Them.
• Freya, Dearly-Beloved, may be associated with the Deae-Matres, Divine-Mothers.
• Habondia, , bears resemblances to Them, and may well have been One of Them.
• See also Matrona, Divine-Mother, below.
• They are also called Matronae, The-Mothers, below.
• Modron, Great-Mother, (below), may be a Welsh singular form of Them.
• Also called Sulevia, , Who are linked with Sulis, .

Titles/Variants, etc:
• Perhaps singular form of Continental Celtic, Deae-Matres, Divine-Mothers, above.

Geography/Culture: Celtic, Roman time. Continental Gallic.
Description: Eponym of the river Marne.

Titles/Variants, etc:
• Singular form of the Deae-Matres, Divine-Mothers above.
• In Rome Matrona, Dine-Mother, is title of Juno, Shining-One.
• French variant Matres, M*Tr.
• The plural form: Matronae, M*CRONI, Mother-Goddesses'.
• Perhaps comparable to Hebraic Matronit, , Who is linked with the Shekhina, Divine-Indwelling-Presence.
• Perhaps related to Welsh Modron, Great-Mother, aabove.

Titles/Variants, etc:
• Their traditions link Them with the Vedic Gnas, Women, Who are linked with Vac, Creative-Word.
• Latin form Mater.
• Hindustani variant Matrka(s)
• Greek formMeter.
• See also the SaptaMatrkas, Seven-Mothers.