Geography/Culture: Roman. Latium.
Linguistic Note: Related English words: furnace, from Latin forno, fornax, an oven; fornicate from Latin fornix, an arch, vaulted room, a brothel.
Description: Goddess of the mysteries of bread-baking, {wombs, and embryos}; She Who presides over the baking of bread {and embryonic development}; the Oven is the Mother.
"Roman ovens and bakeries were associated with temples of the Goddess {under what name?} and Her harlot priestesses were often called Ladies of Bread'". (And see Lada, Lady, (linked with Leto, Lady). An English folk expression for pregnancy is to have a bun in the oven.
To Whom Sacred: bread; {yeast; embryos}; gorgon masks (on oven doors -- a practice instituted by Greek bakers to prevent people opening the oven and spoiling the bread).
Festival: February 17 (or earlier). One Roman orgiastic feast was called the Fornacalia, Oven-feast, which seems a likely name for a feast of Fornax, and may be the name of the February 17 festival.
Male Associates: Her worship was introduced by Numa Pompilius, whose dates are 715 to 672 BCE.

Titles/Variants, etc:
• Perhaps Flora, Who is associated with prostitution (and Whose name is etymologically related to the English word flour) is the "Goddess" referred to above Whose temples were associated with ovens and bakeries. If so it would appear She and Fornax are related.
• Perhaps equivalent to Greek Epiclibanios, , below.
• Perhaps Fornax, The-Oven, is an aspect of Vesta, , Who is the tutelary Goddess of bread bakers.

Geography/Culture: Greek.
Description: Goddess of bread-baking.

Titles/Variants, etc:
• A title of Artemis, High-source-of-Water.
• She would seem to be closely related to Epimulios, She-Who-Presides-Over- the-Mill, also a title of Artemis, High-Source-of-Water.
• Her concern with bread-baking relates Her to Roman Fornax, The-Oven, above.