Geography/Culture: Greek. There was a placename of Marpessa which held a Sibylline shrine.
Description: White Goddess of grain; Ruler of mid-winter; White sow of death; Causer and healer of leprosy.
In mortal form She is said to have committed suicide after the death of Her consort.
To Whom Sacred: white-sow (sow's milk was held to cause leprosy); chariot-racing.
Male Associates: consort Idas. She was raped and abducted by Apollo (signifying the seizure of Her oracular shrine).

Titles/Variants, etc:
• Daughter of Alcippe, Mighty-Mare, Who is linked with the Augralides, .
• She is also called Choere, Sow, below.
• Mother of Cleopatra, (2) Glory-of-Her-Father, Who is linked with Oreithyia, .
• Some say the Marpessan Sibylla, Cavern-Dweller, Who is also said to have been called Marpessa, Snatcher, was also called Herophile, Dear-to-Hera
• See also Orthia, Upright, in connection with leprosy.
• Also called Phorcis, Sea-Sow, below.
• Marpessa, Snatcher, was a name of the Marpessan Sibylla, Cavern-Dweller, Who is linked with Carmenta, Revealer-of-Wisdom.

Geography/Culture: Greek.
Linguistic Note: from Greek kappa-eta-tau-omicron-sigma, (ketos), 'any sea monster or huge fish'. 2. 'An abyss, hollow.'
To Whom Sacred: {sea mammals}.
Male Associates: consort, Phorcys, Boar, alternate meaning: Wise-Old-Man-of-the-Sea. His name became a synonym for the underworld. See also Phorcis linguistic note below. Some say Mother of Ladon

Titles/Variants, etc:
• Mother of Echidne, She-Viper.
• Title (or some say sister) of Eurybie, {Wide-Strength}, Who is linked with Eurynome, Wide-Wanderong.
• Daughter of Gaia, Earth by Pontus.
• Transliteration variant: Keto.
• Mother of the Phorcides, Sea-Sow's-Children, below.
• Alternate name for, (or some say sister of): Phorcis, Sea-Sow, below.
• She corresponds to Babylonian Tiamat, Primeval-Being.

Geography/Culture: Greek?

Titles/Variants, etc:
• A title of Io, Exalted-Moon.
• Compare with Welsh Hen-Wen, Old-White-One, the Sow aspect of Ceridwen, Inspirational-Whiteness.
• Alternate name for Marpessa, Snatcher, above.

Geography/Culture: Greek.
Linguistic Note: Phorcys is a masculine form of Phorcis appearing in Latin as Orcus, 'Boar', a title of Hades (orc is 'pig' in Irish) and as porcus, 'hog'. [Perhaps the word is related to Greek foke, 'seal'; also consider orca, the killer whale, could they, as mammals, have been thought of as pigs of the sea?]. {I had supposed the first word of the phrase 'fork you', was a eupehmism for 'fuck'; now I wonder if this might be its origin}.
Description: Prophetic Goddess of death; She Who, in the form of a sow, eats corpses, and makes the corn sprout.{[Therefore perhaps Goddess of the earth}.
To Whom Sacred: {corn}; pig; {orca; seal}; swineherd.
Male Associates: consort Phorcys, (who is also Ceto's consort). Son, Ladon, He-Who-Embraces, oracular serpent and guardian of the golden tree of apples in Hera's Garden of the Hesperides.

Titles/Variants, etc:
• Perhaps an aspect of Demeter, Barley-Mother, as sow.
• Some say Gaia, Earth, is Mother of Ladon.
• Mother of the Phorcides, Sea-Sow's-Children, below.

Geography/Culture: Greek.
Description: Deities of Death.

Titles/Variants, etc:
• The Libyan Gorgones, Grim-Ones, are sometimes called Phorcides, Sea-Sow's-Children.
• The Graiae, Grey-Ones, are also sometimes called Phorcides, Sea-Sow's-Children.
• Some say: the Hesperides, Western-Ones, are called Phorcides, Sea-Sow's-Children.
• As, (perhaps), was also: Scylla, The-Sucker-Down, in Her association with Charybdis, She-Who-Rends, (Who is linked with Scylla, The-Sucker-Down.
• Some say: the Seirenes, Entanglers, are also sometimes called Phorcides, Sea-Sow's-Childreen.