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Mechanitis, She-Who-Contrives-With-Power.
M]X*NYTYS
Alternate meaning: Contriver.
[to Whom the seventeenth day of September, day 260, is dedicated]
Geography/Culture: Greek.
Description: Goddess of machines and mechanical contrivances; Discoverer of devices; Inspiration of inventors; Matron of undertakings; Promoter of ease and convenience in human lives; She Who concerns Herself with ways in which machines may serve humanity. Also Contriver of sexual passions and the coming together of lovers.
To Whom Sacred: {the bird that kills its prey by impalment (butcher bird?)}; {the bird that uses a stick to dig insects out of holes in tree trunks}; {Venus fly-trap}; {factories}.