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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 932368, member: 5833&quot;]There would be a word.&nbsp; There are coins &amp; cameos with an image of Athena holding a figure of Victory in the palm of her hand that are Athena Nikephoros.&nbsp; The name Lucifer has the same root, light bearer.</p><p><br /></p><p>I checked the names on the list that I recognized as female.&nbsp; Wiki is giving me the Roman tradition on the tales &amp; iconography, so Orthodox could be different.&nbsp; What I noted was that, in Western depictions, they all seem to carry their head in their hands or, in one case, under the arm, not on a charger.&nbsp; In the West martyrs are conventionally shown carrying a palm frond; I don&#039;t know if the Eastern church does the same.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerie_of_Limoges" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerie_of_Limoges" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerie_of_Limoges</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valeria_of_Milan" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valeria_of_Milan" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valeria_of_Milan</a></p><p><br /></p><p>There are icons for a St. Valerie/Valeria/Kaleria, but no second head.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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