Aphaea
Sign in to savethumb|right|260px|Temple of Aphaea|Temple of Aphaia on the island of [[Aegina.]] Aphaia (, Aphaía) was a Greek goddess who was worshipped almost exclusively at a single sanctuary on the island of Aegina in the Saronic Gulf.
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thumb|right|260px|Temple of Aphaea|Temple of Aphaia on the island of [[Aegina.]] Aphaia (, Aphaía) was a Greek goddess who was worshipped almost exclusively at a single sanctuary on the island of Aegina in the Saronic Gulf.
== Cult and worship == She originated as early as the 14th century BCE as a local deity associated with fertility and the agricultural cycle. Under the later Athenian hegemony she came to be identified with the goddesses Athena and Artemis and with the nymph Britomartis as well, by the 2nd century CE, the time of Pausanias: