Geography/Culture: Early Greek: especially Dodona, in Epirus, where the most ancient Greek oracle was located.
Linguistic Note: Her name is a feminie form of Zeus (Dios), Bright-Sky.
Description: Goddess of the earth, woodlands, fertilising moistures and divination (from the rustling of oak, or some say beech, leaves interpreted only old women); Answerer of personal questions; Ruler of the planet Mars.
The rustlings of Dodona's oak leaves were interpreted by the selli, (a word related to sella, a wooden seat, a throne, a log, perhaps in reference to fallen trunks or branches on which they sat listening ( -- listening, as an audience at a concert). The selli were priestesses who, in order to maintain close sensitivity with Earth as Muse, slept on the ground, wore no shoes and never washed their feet.
To Whom Sacred: trees, (especially beech and oak); dove, especially a black dove; {the butterfly dione moneta from Brazil}; bridal-veil; garland; sceptre.
Male Associates: son, (said by some to be), Dionysus by consort Zeus. As Titanis, Her consort is, Crius.

Titles/Variants, etc:
• She was said to be the Mother of Aphrodite, {Froth-of-Replication}, because doves, which are sacred to Aphrodite, nest in oak trees, and Dione's oracular grove at Dodona was a grove of oaks; after seizing the oracle adherents of Zeus then claimed him to be the father of Aphrodite; Dione, Queen-of-the-Bright-Sky, is also a title of Aphrodite.
• Dione is identified with Danae, She-Who-Judges.
• Perhaps a variant, or an alternate name Dia, She-of-the-Bright-Sky, below.
• Titanis Daughter of Hera, or an Epirot name for Hera, Our-Lady.
• Some say She is the Daughter of Rhea, Earth, Who is linked with Pandora, All-Giving.
• The name of One of the Pleiades, Sailing-Ones.
• The name of One of the Oceanides, {Daughter-of-the-Swift-Queen}, Who are linked with Thetis, Disposer.

Geography/Culture: Greek. ?

Titles/Variants, etc:
• Alternate name for Hippodameia, The-Horse-Tamer, below.
• See also Damasippos, {Mother-of-Horses}, Who is linked with Athene. I-Have-Come-From-Myself.

Geography/Culture: Greek.
Linguistic Note: Greek delta-iota-alpha, feminine of delta-iota-omikron-sigma. Acc. of Zeus.
Description: Goddess of the moon, and the rain clouds; Divine Daughter of the sea-shore.
To Whom Sacred: Oak; dove; horse; ritual marriage.
Male Associates: son, Peirithous by consort Ixion (or through seduction by Zeus -- for whom Ixion may have been another name -- in the form of a stallion).

Titles/Variants, etc:
• Could She be related to Roman Dea-Dia, {Goddess-of-the-Day}, Who is linked with Who is linked with Lupa, She-Wolf.
• Perhaps an alternate name, or variant, of Dione, Queen-of-the-Bright-Sky, above.
• Alternate name for Greek Hebe, She-Who-Removes-From-Sight, Who is linked with Roman Juventas, Youthfulness.
• Title of Hera, Our-Lady.
• Perhaps title Hippodameia, The-Horse-Tamer, below.
• Dia, She-of-the-Bright-Sky, is the name (perhaps as a title) of a priestess of: Thetis, Disposer.

Geography/Culture: Greek: possibly Arcadia.
Male Associates: consort, Pelops. When the Pelopians intermarried with the original Arcadians, this was recorded in myth as a marriage between Hippodameia and Pelops.

Titles/Variants, etc:
• Also called Danais, ----, above.
• Perhaps title of Dia,She-of-the-Bright-Sky, above.
• Variant Hippodamia.
• Mother of Nicippe, Conquering-Mare, Who is linked with Demeter, Barley-Mother.