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| | Goddesses and Priestesses Connected to Hera |
 | | She was a Fate Goddess, as evidenced by the meaning of her name, 'she who judges278' and her alternate names Kameira 'sharer out' and Abantias 'confronting purity.' Her name has also been translated 'dawn.' Lerna was one of her great holy sites, and the Argive tribes were known as the Danai. |
 | | Although Danae was reduced to mortal status in Greece, she too seems to have been carried by fleeing worshippers to Celtic lands, where she became known as Don, ancestral Goddess of the Welsh, and Danu 'knowledge'280 of the Irish and the Aegean. |
 | | From this Etruscan Goddess Juno inherited her name289, the dove, peacock, cowrie, her bolt hurling warrior aspect, and the great yoni shrine of Port Pyrgi in Caere. |
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