Geography/Culture: Babylonia: Der.
Description: Great lady; Supreme Goddess; Lion-headed Daughter of heaven; Bringer of plagues; Disease infector, especially of children; Blood-drinker; Consumer of flesh.
To Whom Sacred: lion; serpent (She was worshipped at Der as a serpent with a woman's head): amulets bearing Her name (hung on doors of a household, or around the neck, She recognising reverence, will go elsewhere).

Titles/Variants, etc:
• Probable variant: Lamia, Greedy-One, below.
• Variant: Lamasthu.
• Similar to and perhaps origin of Lilith, Nocturnal-One.

Geography/Culture: Greek, from Libya.
Description: Pythoness; She Who incarnates the Goddess Lamia.
To Whom Sacred: Tripod (on which She sits to deliver oracles).
Male Associate: She is a priestess of Apollo at the Delphic shrine.

Titles/Variants, etc:
• Daughter of Lamia, Greedy-One, below.
• Herophile, Dear-to-Hera, is said by some to be the Daughter of the Nymph Neso, NASO, [Young-Creature], by lover Dardanus {but this may be due to a confusion between Herophile, the Libyan Sibylla, and Herophile, the Marpessan Sibylla. Even the Cumaean Sibylla is said by some to be called Herophile!} Cavern-Dweller, and, being Herself called Sibylla, Cavern-Dweller, by the Libyans, She was known elsewhere as the Libyan Sibylla, Cavern-Dweller.

Geography/Culture: Libya: adopted by Greece and Rome. She had an oracle at Delphi.
Linguistic Note: Greek lambda-alpha-mu-iota-alpha, from laimos, 'gullet' and thus, it is said of a woman: 'lecherous', seems related to; lamyros: 1. 'gluttonous, greedy', 2. metaphorically 'bold, wanton, impudent'.
Description: Originally Queen of Libya; Guardian of oracular shrines and source of prophetic utterance; Bestower of mystic insight; She Who has a flickering tongue.
When superceded became She became Demonic Goddess of frustration and despair; Terrifier of children; Child-slayer; Beautiful Seducer of young men Who feeds on their heart's blood.
Shehe is sometimes referred to as though bi-sexual, or male.
To Whom Sacred: lapwing (in which form Zeus fathered Herophile, Dear-to-Hera, on Her); snake (She had a woman's face and a serpent's tail); roebuck (associated with Her oracle at Delphi); eye (of mystic insight); child sacrifice; tripot.
Male Associates: betrayed by Zeus (for which reason She became a demon). [Daughter of Belus].

Titles/Variants, etc:
• Equivalent to Canaanite Alukah, ----.
• Title of Danae, She-Who-Judges.
• Mother of Herophile, Dear-to-Hera, above.
• Plural form: Lamiae, Greedy-Ones, below.
• Perhaps a variant of, or derived from Lamashtu, Mother-of-Deities, above.
• Some say Daughter of Libya, Dripping-Rain, Who is linked with Neith, World-Weaver, or Her name may be the Greek name for the Goddess Libya.
• Lilith, Nocturnal-One, bears similarities to Her.
• Perhaps appropriately identified with Medusa, Cunning-One, Who is linked with the Gorgones, Grim-Ones.
• Perhaps Lamia, Greedy-One, is the Greek's name for Egyptian Neith, World-Weaver, Herself originally from Libya.
• Omphale, Earth's-Navel is connected with the Malian Lamia through Her son Lamios, Gullet, eponym of the city.
• Some say Mother of Scylla, She-Who-Rends.

Geography/Culture: Greek, from Libya.

Description: Those Who live in caves combing Their hair with golden combs.
To Whom Sacred: Gorgon mask (which Lamia's priestesses wore during Her mysteries); golden comb.

Titles/Variants, etc:
• Akin to the Empusae, Forcers-In, Who are linked with Hecate,
• Emissaries of the triple Hecate `She-who-works-from-afar'.
• Plural form of Lamia, `Greedy-one', the term may also be a way of refering to Her orgiastic priestesses.