Editing Pandrosus (section)

==Etymology==
The name "Pandrosos" carries the meaning of "all dew" or "all bedewed" in the Greek language (drosos, dew). For this reason, Pandrosos is at times called the "Dew Goddess" and the three Kekropidai together are sometimes referred to as the "Dew Sisters."<ref>Evy Johanne Haland, "The Ritual Year of Athena: The Agricultural Cycle of the Olive, Girls' Rites of Passage, and Official Ideology," ''Journal of Religious History'' 36, no. 2 (June 2012): 261.</ref>

The name "Herse" also holds connotations of dew in the Greek. This has led to speculation among scholars that originally there were only two Kekropidai and that Herse was a later addition to the myth, functioning essentially as a double of Pandrosos. The purpose of the creation of the character of Herse would have been to bring the number of Kekropidai up to three so as to conform to the common trope of three sisters in Greek mythology (in keeping with the [[Three Fates]], the [[Charites|Three Charites]], etc.).<ref>Jennifer Lynn Larson, ''Greek Heroine Cults'' (Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1995), 99.</ref>