Geography/Culture: Greek: Perhaps of Persian origin. Her seat was in the marshy Valley of the Caystrus.
Linguistic Note: from epsilon-phi-epsilon-sigma-iota-sigma (ephesis), 1) a throwing or hurling at. 2) (Law term) An appeal to another court. {The name is coined to give a name to Her Whose name is unknown, FW}.
Description: All nourishing, multiple-breasted Mother; Orgiastic Goddess of nature's productivity and {perhaps} of the moon; Great Foster-Mother of the animal and vegetable Queedoms.
She is associated with the Amazons who set up Her image in a tree, and are said to have founded the city Ephesus and build Her temple there. Her first image, in the familiar many-breasted form was said in the first instance to have fallen from heaven. It is conjectured the Amazons were originally Her temple servants and priestesses.
To Whom Sacred: date-palm {which Her image reminds one of a palm -- the palm is a birth tree}; bee (a frequent symbol on coins of the city Ephesus); rams; stag; lions; bulls; mural-crown; eunuch priests called Essenes; (or they were called megabyzoi and were under the control of a high priest called Essen); She had three classes of priestesses: the Mellierae, the Hierae and the Parierae (there is no evidence they were called Melissae as some suggest).
Festival: Ephesia, also called Artemisia, held in the Greek spring with games and contests.

Titles/Variants, etc:
• The Greeks called Her Artemis-of-Ephesus, recognising in their own Artemis, High-Source-of-Water, something of the qualities of Ephesaia, She-Who-Court-is-Highest.
• She may be a form of Cybele, She-With-the-Axe.
• The Romans called Her Diana-of-Ephesus for the same reason the Greeks called Her Artemis-of-Ephesus, because they identified their own Diana, Divine-Queen, with Greek Artemis..
• The Romans also called Her the Ephesian-Diana.
• The Greeks also called Her the Ephesian-Artemis.
• Leucophryne, ----, (below), may be a true name of Her.
• It is said She has much in common with Cappodocian Ma, Mother, Who is linked with Bellona, Lady-of-War. {Since I have not yet been able to identify much information as strictly pertaining to Ma, Mother, this statement doesn't amount to much.}
• Her image recalls descriptions of Tamar, Date-Palm.
• Title: Thecla, Famous-One, below.

Geography/Culture: Thessaly. A non-Hellenic representative of Artemis brought by immigrants of Magnesia in Thessaly to Magnesia in the Meander.
Description: Goddess of nature.
To Whom Sacred: zebu.

Titles/Variants, etc:
• Her image on coins exactly resembles Ephesaia, She-Whose-Court-is-Highest.
• Variant: Leucophrys.

Geography/Culture: A shrine in Selencia, originally belonging to Ephesaia, She-Whose-Court-is-Highest, became that of Saint-Thecla. In the 4th century it was attended by a sect called Apotactics, (under a female deacon), which was subsequently declared heretical.

Titles/Variants, etc:
• Perhaps a title of Ephesaia, She-Whose-Court-is-Highest, (above), or the title of Her priestess.
• She was assigned the fore-title Saint, by the Christians.