Geography/Culture: Thracian. Her worship spread to Athens.
Linguistic Note: Wave of the deep is given as the meaning of Benthesicyme in Graves GMv2 index. It is here used as a meaning for Bendis, without much hope that it is correct.
Description: Great Orgiastic Mother Goddess of fertility, {and, perhaps, death}; She Who is identified with the moon; Ruler of, (or invested with power over), heaven and earth; Destroying Crone of the waning moon; She Who is associated with rivers as the waters of birth.
She was Christianized as a She-demon.
To Whom Sacred: the planet Venus.
Male Associate: consort, Sabazius, Breaker-in-Pieces, horned god of the sun.

Titles/Variants, etc:
• Fore-title Anaitis,, , below.
• Perhaps related to Benthesicyme, Wave-of-the-Deep, Daughter of Amphitrite, Who is linked with Roman Salacia, . {Eventually see below. There is a little more on Benthesicyme, Graves GMv1 168, which makes a tenuous connection with Thrace, and Oreithyia.}
  
• Perhaps a title, or form of Cottyto, Cup-of-Life, below, Whose consort is also Sabazius.
• See also Hipta, , (Who is linked with Hepat), Who is associated with a Zeus-Sabazius.

Geography/Culture: Thracian. Her cult was introduced into Attica in the 5th century, BC.
Description: Goddess of war and the chase.
To Whom Sacred: moon-fern (also called moonwort, a small fern, botrychium lunaria; the frond bears several pairs of close-set, semi-circular or moon-shaped pinnae; it is widely distributed in the north and south temperate and cold zones.)
Festival: Bendidea. It was held at the Pieraeus, and included a torch race on horse-back.

Titles/Variants, etc:
• Perhaps Cotytto, (see below), is a title or form of Her.
• Identified with Hecate, (qv), Who has many points in common with Bendis.
• Greek Persephoneia, (qv), has been identified with Bendis by some.
• The Persian-Artemis, qv Anahita, is said to be identical with Her.

Geography/Culture: Thracian, Corinth, Sicily and throughout N.W.Europe.
Linguistic Note: although Cottyto is not a Greek word, the following is of interest: Greek kappa-omicrkon-tau-upsilon-lambda-eta, (kotyle), cup; kappa-omicron-tau-upsilon-lambda-eta-delta-omega-nu, (kotyledon), any cup-shaped hollow.
Description: Great orgiastic Crone (though some say Mother) Goddess of the earth, fertility, (perhaps the moon) and happy sexuality; She Who pipes to reapers at their work; Eponymous ancestress of the Cottians.
Her worship took place on hill-tops, at night.
To Whom Sacred: fruit; barley-cakes; spruce-beer (laced with ivy, sweetened with mead); white bull; human sacrifice; bronze cymbals and other instruments; Her devotees included mystagoues called Babtists.
Festival: Cottyttia, nocturnal and licentious; in Sicily a feature of it was the carrying of boughs hung with fruit and barley-cakes. It was notorious in late classical times for its licentiousness.
Male Associate: son, Cottus; consort, Sabazius (assimilated by Dionysius). Her name is also masculinized.

Titles/Variants, etc:
• If Her name can be appropriately associated with the concept of a hollow, or cup-shape, could She be distantly related to Sumerian Aruru?, qv.
• Perhaps title, or form of Bendis.
• Probable variant: Cotys, K0TÜS, `ÄÄÄ'. {This may be the masculinized form}.
• (In maculinised form She is) Son of Callirrhoe, see below.
• Said to be analogous to Cybele.
• Perhaps to be identified with Gaia, Who has a son Cottus.
• (In masculinized form She is) Father of Hesione, qv Astart.
• Identified with Rhea, `Earth', qv Pandora.
• Perhaps also called Semele `Subterranean', qv Zemelo.
• Perhaps also called Thyone `Ecstatic-Madness', qv Zemelo.

Geography/Culture: Greece.
Male Associate: consort Tros.

Titles/Variants, etc:
• Mother of Cottus {should perhaps be Cottys}, masculinised form of Cotytto, `{Cup-of-Life}'.
• Mother of Cleopatra, qv Oreithyia. {But see also Howe HCM 55 who lists 4, and Kravitz WWGRM who lists 5.}
• Daughter of Idaia, qv Ida.
• The name of one of the Oceanides, qv Thetis.