Divinities
The Mycenaeans worshipped divinities (teoi/theoi) which we can clearly recognize as such. Aside from the deities mentioned above, Potnia, Athena, Pi-pi- tu-na and A-ma-tu-na, the Mycenaean written sources also confirm that they worshipped Poseidon, Zeus (the dative form written as the recognizably Indo- European form Diwei), Dionysus, Hera, Hermes (Hermahas) and Artemis (as Artimis).
These are all known from the contemporary written documents and from the later pantheon. The Mycenaeans worshipped other gods as well, such as an Eleuthia, but also including a female equivalent to Zeus, a goddess probably named Diwia, probably a sky goddess of Indo-European origin (possibly a consort, but definitely separate from Hera [E-ra]). I would likewise concur with Palaima (2008: 349-50) that Demeter was probably at hand, but also concealed under the broad mantle of Potnia. (This is, however, also related to the discussion of the Minoan goddess: see below). Persephone may also have been present as the“girl” (ko-wa/korwd).
The importance of the Minoan gods in the Mycenaean system is not clear. The writing of Artemis implies that she belongs to the gods inherited from earlier. The same is true of Athena. In Mycenaean times, this Athena was certainly more than “merely” the goddess of the city whose name celebrates her to this day (although associated with the site of the city already in the Bronze Age). Obviously these goddesses were fully incorporated into the Mycenaean and Greek systems, but Athena may have been of at most subsidiary importance in the Minoan system.