Geography/Culture: Hellenic? Greece.
Linguistic Note: related English words: measure, metre, meter, mete, diameter. Idg. me, 'to measure'. Sanskrit ma, 'to measure'.
Description: Shapeshifting Goddess of counsel, wisdom and knowledge; Most knowing and wisest of Deities; She Whose wisdom is watery, intuitive, poetic, attuned to subleties and transformations.
To Whom Sacred: almond; walnut; bee; mustard and salt (as emetic); the planet Mercury (equals wisdom); the day wednesday (equals Mercury); {by extension, quicksilver}; the number nine. Nuts are associated with wisdom.
Male Associates: consort, Zeus, who swallowed Her when She was pregnant with Athene, {I-Have-Come-From-Myself}.

Titles/Variants, etc:
• Mother of Athene, Immortal-One.
• She may also have been known as Car, {Queen-Bee}.
• She is also called: Carya, Nut-Tree, below.
• This is the name of One of the Oceanides, Daughters-of-the-Swift-Queen, Who are linked with Thetis, Disposer.
• As an Oceanide She is Daughter of Tethys, Swift-Queen, Who is linked with Thetis, Disposer.

Geography/Culture: Greece.

Titles/Variants, etc:
• Car, {Queen-Bee}, may have been Her origin.
• Presumed variant: Caryatis, She-of-the-Walnut-Tree, below.
• Transliteration variant: Karya.
• Alternate name, or title of: Metis, Counsel, above.

Geography/Culture: Greece -- Laconia, especially the village Karuai.
Description: Goddess of vegetation, trees, wisdom, inspiration and healing; eponym of columns sculptured to look like women. Compiler's note: Since the Greek stone temples were originally renderings in stone of their previous wooden temples, it seems possible that the caryatid columns, which in the wooden temples would have started out as tree trunks, were based on trunks which had been carved to show the inhabiting tree-spirit. They are akin to the Hindustani Yaksinis, Those-of-Sylvan-Mysteries.
To Whom Sacred: walnut tree and nut; Caryatids, or Caryatides (columns sculpted in the form of women and also the name of Her priestesses).

• Sometimes this is a surtitle of Artemis, Hight-Source-of-Water.
• Priestesses of Artemis at Karuai were known as Caryatides, Nut-Nymphs.
• Perhaps Caryatis, She-of-the-Walnut-Tree, can be identified with Carmenta, Revealer-of-Wisdom.
• Transliteration variant: Karyatis.
• Transliteration variant: Karyatis.