Chadwick suggests that she was the mother-goddess of the Mycenaeans. It seems that she had an important shrine at the site "Pakijanes" near Pylos. Wanax ("wa-na-ka") was her male companion in the Mycenean cult, and this title was usually applied to the god Poseidon ("po-se-da-o") as king of the underworld. Another epithet of Poseidon was "e-ne-si-da-o-ne" ("earth-shaker") and in the cave of Amnisos (Crete) "Enesidaon" is related to the cult of Eileithyia. She was a goddess of nature concerned with the annual birth of the divine child. Potnia and her male companion ("paredros") survived in the Eleusinian cult, where the following words were uttered : "Mighty Potnia has born a strong son". An inscription from Knossos refers to the "potnia of the labyrinth", who probably presided over the palace of Knossos ("da-pu2-ri-to-jo,po-ti-ni-ja"). A famous Minoan seal impression found by Arthur Evans shows a nameless goddess brandishing a spear and standing upon the representation of a mountain flanked by rampant lions, and the representation seems similar to the Homeric potnia theron (the mistress of the animals). Several tablets in Linear B script found at Knossos and Pylos refer to the "potnia". Potnia is almost always accompanied by an epithet characterizing a particular place or function of the mistress : "po-ti-ni-ja,a-si-wi-ja" ("a-si-wi-ja" = ethnic adjective, possibly "Asian (Lydian) woman"), "si-to-po-ti-ni-ja" ("sitos" = "grain", of wheat or barley; probably referring to Demeter or her predecessor), "po-ti-ni-ja,i-qe-ja" ("Potnia Hippeia", "Horse Goddess"). At Knossos a tablet refers to "a-ta-na-po-ti-ni-ja", "potnia Athana", a form similar to the later Homeric form. This divine title could be the translation of a similar title of Pre-Greek origin, just as the title "Our Lady" in Christianity is translated in several languages.