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ZUES SONS - THE DIVINE DAUGHTERS⚡⚡
PART 5 (Eileithyia)
Eileithyia, Greek Goddess Of Childbirth And Pregnancy.
In Greek mythology, Eileithyia (or Ilithyia) was the goddess of childbirth who held the cow and the peacock as sacred animals. She was the daughter of ZEUS, the king of all the other gods, and HERA, Zeus’s seventh and last wife, who was also his sister. Eileithyia was born in a cave near Knossos, Crete, a cave that is mentioned in Book 19 of Homer’s The Odyssey.
This cave became the primary place of worship for the goddess Eileithyia. She was also worshipped in Olympia, where a shrine to her was made. Inside the cave in Crete, the stalactites and stalagmites appear to symbolize the goddess’s double actions of bringing labor on and delaying it. The cave itself represents the darkness of the womb, and the passage out of the cave holds a connection to the birth canal.
PART 5 (Eileithyia)
Eileithyia, Greek Goddess Of Childbirth And Pregnancy.
In Greek mythology, Eileithyia (or Ilithyia) was the goddess of childbirth who held the cow and the peacock as sacred animals. She was the daughter of ZEUS, the king of all the other gods, and HERA, Zeus’s seventh and last wife, who was also his sister. Eileithyia was born in a cave near Knossos, Crete, a cave that is mentioned in Book 19 of Homer’s The Odyssey.
This cave became the primary place of worship for the goddess Eileithyia. She was also worshipped in Olympia, where a shrine to her was made. Inside the cave in Crete, the stalactites and stalagmites appear to symbolize the goddess’s double actions of bringing labor on and delaying it. The cave itself represents the darkness of the womb, and the passage out of the cave holds a connection to the birth canal.
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