Geography/Culture: Slavic.
Linguistic note: Slavic. zemel- earth.
Description: Goddess of earth.

• Probably related to Mati-Zyra-Zemla, Moist-Mother-Earth.
• Her name may be etymologically related to: Greek Semele, Subterranean, below.

Geography/Culture: Greek: Isle of Naxos.
Linguistic note: Greek orthography kopêvn, the chough, or sea-crow, a small bird with red beak and legs. 2. Anything hooked or curved like a crow's bill. Latin, cornix.

• Etymologically related to Coronis, Sea-Crow, below.
• Some say Sister of Semele, Subterranean, below.

Geography/Culture: Greek.

• Title of Athene, Immortal-One, qv.
• One of the Hyades, Rainy-Ones, is called Coronis, Sea-Crow.
• Etymologically related to Corone, above.

Geography/Culture: Greek: Argolia, espcially Hermione. Also Sparta.
Linguistic notes: Greek orthography xi-theta-omicron-nu-iota-alpha, (khthonia), from xi-theta-omicron-nu-iota-sigma, (khthonios), 'in, under or beneath the earth'. 2. 'Of subterranean noises'. Related English word: chthonic.
Goddess of the underworld.
To Whom are sacred: hyacinth garland (worn by those joining in the Chthonia festival procession); cow (representing the spirit of vegetation sacrificed by three old women at the Chthonia festival); torch; the demetreioi (spirits of the dead).
Festival: Chthonia, 'Festival of the soil'.

• This is a title of Demeter, Barley-Mother, and the name of one of Her festivals.
• Chthoniai-Theai, X3ONYI-3AI, {Earth-Goddesses}, is a title for Demeter, Barley-Mother, and Persephoneia, Destroyer, together, and for the Erinyes, Spirits-of-Anger-and-Revenge.
• Alternate name for Semele, Subterranean, below.

Geography/Culture: Asia Minor > Greece, especially Thebes.
Description: {Goddess of the earth and the germination of seed}.
In most myths She is represented as a mortal killed by Zeus occasioning Her descent to the Underworld. Her statue and grave were to be seen at Thebes.
To whom are sacred: ivy.
Male associates: son, Dionysus by lover Zeus or Actaeon.

• It has been suggested that Cotytto, Cup-of-Life, Who is linked with Bendis, may have been known as Semele, Subterranean, and as Thyone, emphasizing the possibility that these are two names for the same Goddess.
• In Phrygia She is called: Chthonia, The-Subterranean, above.
• Some say Semele, Subterranean, is the Sister of Corone, above.
• Daughter of Harmonia, Who is linked with Concordia.
• Perhaps a form of Persephoneia, Destroyer.
• Etruscan language variant: Semla.
• Also called, or sister of, Thyone, Ecstatic-Madness, below.
• Her name is probably etymologically related to Zemelo, Earth-Mother, above.

Geography/Culture: Asia Minor.
Description: Queen of the dead; Goddess of the darkly fruitful earth that devours life so that fertilised, She may reproduce life; Mother of the vine and intoxicated orgies.
To whom are sacred: ivy; toadstools; floors scattered with flower-petals; dancing; singing; piping; omphalos (artificial mound).

• Also called: Semele, Subterranean, or said to be Her sister.