Potnia
deity earth Minoan single tradition · 2
Potnia is a deity.
↻ synthesized from 2 sources
When
- First attested
- 1450 BCE
- Attested period
- -1450 – -1300
- Historical notes
- The title appears on Linear B tablets without accompanying nouns, suggesting a generic honorific for a mother‑goddess figure.
Relationships
Mentioned by
Sources
wikipedia (2)
Source passages
“Potnia”
#19726 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“The figure of a goddess of nature, of birth and death was dominant during the Bronze Age... In the Mycenean cult she was known by the title Potnia. The earliest references to the title are inscriptions in Linear B... dated 1450-1300 BC.”
#45703 · extracted by openai/gpt-oss-120b:free