time Tereia, a form of the goddess worshipped in a mountain near Lampsacus and whose name was related with that of the nymph Tereine, who in Greek mythology was the goddess of the river-god Strymon. Since the Thracian king was identified with the Hero , who had united with the Great Goddess to become king, so did the human king unite with the Mother Goddess to ensure the plentifulness of the country in an act considered indispensable for him to obtain royal power. This union between the king and the Goddess is visible in representations of the Thracian royal investiture, such as the goddess about to give a rhyton to a horseman towards her on the plate of the Brezovo gold ring, and the goddess walking leftwards and is followed by a horseman holding a rhyton she has just given him on the Rosovets ring, and the hierogamy scene from the Letnitsa Treasure. The dual goddess had a dual aspect: she was a virgin, as well as a matron, which were the archetypal representations of the principal roles of women in archaic societies such as ancient Thrace. The virgin As the virgin goddess, had a dual nature: she was a huntress, as well as the goddess of the hearth. The virgin , who was a goddess of the wilderness, was always a huntress, which was an unusual occupation for a woman whereby she occupied the realm of wilderness, which was the opposite of the domestic domain. This virgin form of , whose companion was a dog, had her own dual nature, being physically a woman, but acting like a young man during initiation, and she sometimes possessed an aggressive character, not unlike the maiden-warriors of various Indo-European mythologies, such as the Greek Amazons, the Scythian Oiorpata, the Bulgarian heroic maiden, and the Germanic Valkyrie. In this form as a virgin huntress with nets, or also as a spinner, was the goddess of war and the patron deity of initiations and warriors, and the warrior-huntress, her attributes were two spears, hence her epithet (), meaning "having two spears". The virgin was also the goddess of the hearth, and therefore presided over the most "feminine" sphere: the hearth-goddess presided over the centre of things, the home, the proper, the familiar, and wealth. In this role, possessed the attributes common to the virgin hearth goddess throughout various Indo-European religions: she was bound to