entities: ENT_MYC_DIWIA

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entity_id canonical_name greek_name tradition entity_type category primary_domains tags cult_scope primary_period evidence_confidence review_status inclusion_basis earth_association_score chthonic_flag serpent_flag short_note entity_class
ENT_MYC_DIWIA Diwia   Mycenaean Goddess / Feminine form of Zeus High Deity feminine divine sovereignty; sky; Mycenaean great goddess; Linear B tablets       A           Mycenaean goddess attested at Pylos as di-u-ja (Linear B); her name is the transparent feminine form of di-we (Zeus / Di-wos), meaning literally "the female Zeus" or "she who is of Zeus"; she appears in Linear B offering lists alongside other deities and receives cult; her name directly corresponds to the later Classical Greek "Dione" (the same feminine derivation: Dios + -ōnē suffix = Dione), the goddess who is Zeus's consort at the oracle sanctuary of Dodona (Homer Iliad 5.370-417; Dione there consoles Aphrodite after she is wounded in battle); the Linear B Diwia represents the Mycenaean form of this Zeus-consort tradition before the Dark Age reshaped the divine hierarchy and demoted this figure from an independently worshipped goddess to a secondary consort deity

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