Geography/Culture: Syrian, Alexandrian Greek.
Description: Virgin Mother Goddess of the sea, trees, healing, birth, death and resurrection; eponym of myrrha.
To Whom Sacred: myrrh (or balsam), the resinous gum of an Arabian tree used for perfume, incense and embalming the dead (myrrh is used as incense at festivals of Adonis); sweet cicely (plant -- is called myrrh, cicely is a variant of cecelia); lion (calendar emblem of the first part of the year divided into three); boar (according to some versions, the boar which killed Adonis also brought him to birth by opening the bark of the myrrh-tree, his Mother, with its tusk, thereby allowing his birth).
Male Associates: son, Adonis, Lord, vegetation god, by Her father/lover Theias, Diviner, king of Assyria, or, some say, by Cinyras, Plaintive-Cry, king of Cyprus.

Titles/Variants, etc:
• Daughter of Cenchreis, K]NXAS, {Spotted-Serpent}.
• Also called, or variant Myrine, Sea-Goddess, below.
• Also called, Smyrna, The-Sea-Goddess, which is Myrine, Sea-Goddess, preceded by the definite article.
• Also called Myrtea, Sea-Goddess, below.

Geography/Culture: Eastern Mediterranean, Lemnos.
Description: Mother Goddess of the moon and the sea; Her rites save sailors from shipwreck; Mother of Gods; Eponym of the city Myrine; She Whose society is gynocratic.
To Whom Sacred: woad (used by Her people); armed priestesses; the Phrygian blessing (the thumb and first two fingers raised, the fourth and little finger bent downards -- originally given in Her name it was adopted by the Catholic church in the name of the trinity).

Titles/Variants, etc:
• The name of an Amazon Queen.
• Perhaps a form of Marienna, High-Fruitful-Mother-of-Heaven, Who is linked with Mary, {Sea-Queen}.
• The Trojans worshipped Her as Leaping-Myrrhine.
• Also called, or variant, Myrrhine.

Geography/Culture: Eastern Meditteranean.
Description: Goddess of the sea as destroyer.
To Whom Sacred: myrtle-tree, its berries and resin, (sacred -- to Aphrodite all over the Mediterranean -- partly from growing best near the sea, partly for its fragrance, but primarily because it was a tree of death: as ever-green, a token of the resurrection of the dead king of the year -- it's leaves and berries (which ripen in December) have medicinal qualities attributed to them; myrtle boughs (Greeks emigrants carried myrtle boughs when intending to found new colonies).

Titles/Variants, etc:
• Title of Aphrodite, Froth-of-Replication.
• Variant Myrto.
• Longer form, Myrtoessa.