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| | Maurizio Bettini Nascere / Weasels in English |
 | | In ancient Greece, the Moirai and Eileithyiai seem to have formed a cultural group, in which the ideas of birth and of destiny were strongly linked and associated with the images and instruments of spinning. | | | In the Homeric text, the Eileithyiai seem to be the embodiment of the actual labor pains suffered by the woman giving birth. | | | Based on the false news that Alcmena has given birth, the goddesses raise up their hands, which seems also to be a gesture that formed part of the symbolic vocabulary of childbirth in antiquity, as in many iconographic representations in which the Eileithyiai are shown with their hands raised. |
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http://www.geocities.com/mauriziobettini/Nascere.html
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| | Greek Mythology: ILITHYIA / EILEITHYIA Goddess of Childbirth & Women's Labour ( also Genetyllis Lucina Natio ) w/ ... |
| | Natio was the Latin goddess of birth, worshipped in the region of Ardea. | | | Ichneumons are said to be sacred to Leto and the Eileithyiai (Goddesses of Birth), and the people of Heraklepolis worship them, so they say." - Aelian, On Animals 10.47 | | | "Ichneumons [or mongooses] are said to be sacred to Leto and the Eileithyiai (Goddesses of Birth), and the people of Heraklepolis worship them, so they say." - Aelian, On Animals 10.47 |
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http://www.theoi.com/Ouranios/Eileithyia.html
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| | Deborah Lyons: GENDER AND IMMORTALITY -- CHAPTER TWO: Heroines and Mortals |
| | Minor divinities, on the other hand, do have a tendency to multiply, e.g., "Eileithyiai." See J. Rudhardt, Notions fondamentales de la pensée religieuse et actes constitutifs du culte dans la Grèce classique (Geneva, 1958) 91ff., on the fragmentation of divine identity. |
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http://pup.princeton.edu/books/lyons/chapter_2.html
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| | Ilithyia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Vase-painters, when illustrating the birth of Athena from Zeus' head, may show two assisting Eileithyiai, with their hands raised in the epiphany gesture. | | | Theoi.com "Eileithyia" collects many classical references that have been used in this article. | | | Thus Aelian in the 3rd century AD could refer to "Artemis of the child-bed" (On Animals 7.15) |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilithyia
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| | Northvegr - Grimm's TM - Chap. 36 |
| | Among the Greeks a birth was forwarded or checked by superior divine beings, the eileithyiai, handmaids of Hera, who were gradually merged in a single Eileithyia, the Roman Lucina. | | | In our Edda Oddrûn the sister of Atli has skill in childbirth, she posts over land to the expectant mother, flings the saddle off her steed and strides into the hall (Sæm. |
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http://www.northvegr.org/lore/grimmst/03604.php
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| | The Jack-O-Witch Greek Temple - Deities & Creatures |
| | In Greek mythological iconography Eileithyia took a place probably under the Homeric tradition. | | | One, but mostly two women - Eileithyiai attend Zeus during the birth of Athena on the decoration of some black figured vases from the 6th century BC. | | | Evidently, they are sisters, -daughters of Hera-, their type and clothes are similar. |
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http://www.jackowitch.com/greekdeitiesAF.html
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| | Perseus Lookup Tool |
| | Basel, H. Cahn, HC801: AMPHORA FRAGMENT; GROUP E; BIRTH OF ATHENA, ZEUS SEATED ON STOOL WITH THUNDERBOLT BETWEEN EILEITHYIAI [Beazley Archive Vase] (6.24) |
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http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/vor?type=phrase&lookup=thunderbolt
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| | The TITANS & Greek Mythology - Atlantis Rising |
| | For she hated Artemis and would not call upon her in her pains; she would not have the daughters of Hera [the Eileithyiai], lest they as being children of Bakkhos’s stepmother should oppress her delivery with more pain. | | | She held her hands over her lap like a lid compressing the birth, to close the speedy delivery of her ripening child, and delayed the babe now perfect. | | | At last in her affliction the girl cried out these despairing words, stabbed with the pangs of one who was new to the hard necessity of childbirth: |
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http://forums.atlantisrising.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/000926.html
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| | Child Bed Spread |
| | 5.72.5 ìO Artemis of the child-bed, and ye Eileithyiai (Goddesses... |
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