Ainina and Danina, also recorded as Ainina and Danana, are a pair of pre-Christian female deities said to have been worshipped in ancient Kartli, the Iberia of classical sources, according to the medieval Georgian chronicles. Beyond these later chronicle records, no other evidence survives for the existence of their cult. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Attestation
Veneration TodayHistorically attested; no continuous cult 2 HistoricityNot a historical person: a divine or other-than-human being 1 Belief
TheologyPolytheistic: many gods 1 Sources
1. The Facts on File Encyclopedia of World Mythology and Legend
Anthony S. Mercatante, revised and expanded by James R. Dow, Facts on File
2. The Oxford Classical Dictionary, 4th edition
Simon Hornblower, Antony Spawforth and Esther Eidinow (eds.), Oxford University Press
Wikipedia, "Ainina and Danina"
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