Symbols of The Sacred Mother

Mother Goddesses represent ripeness, fertility, fulfillment, stability, and power.

Ala (Nigeria) One face of the Mother Goddess. She was the ruler of the Underworld, protectress of the harvest, and fertility of both animals and man.

Bast (Egypt) Bast was the Cat Headed Goddess. She was associated with both fertility and childbirth. She was also the goddess of music, dancing and joy.

Cerridwen (Celtic) Associated with the Mother Goddess and the Sow.

Danu (Celtic) Flowing Mother of Abundance and Fertility. She is associated with flowing rivers, agriculture, cultivation, and the nurturing of the land. She represents the cycle of life, death, and rebirth, as demonstrated by the plants of the natural world.

Demeter (Greece) (Roman Ceres) The Mother Goddess. Daughter of Rhea. She represented the wellspring of life; giving and compassionate, and the Mother- Daughter bond.

Hathor (Egypt) Hathor was the protectress of woman and pregnancy. She was sometimes also considered, in some areas, a midwife. Hathor was most often shown as a cow and was said to have nourished the mortals with her milk.

Hera (Greece) (Roman Juno) Greek Queen of Heaven, Goddess of Birth and Marriage. Daughter of Rhea. Hera presided over all things feminine.

Ixchel (Mayan), The Goddess of Fertility and Crone Wisdom, was generally viewed as ruling childbirth, lunar cycles, and pregnancy. However she had a disastrous side as well, as she sent floods and storms to earth.

Juno Lucina (Roman) Another face of Juno, Juno Lucina had a duel role; she protected pregnant woman and women giving birth. She was thought to bring a newborn child "into the light".

Mylitta (Babylonian and Assyrian) Goddess of fertility and childbirth.

Pukkeenegak (Eskimo) Feminine goddess who was supposed to give children to Eskimo women.

St. Catherine of Sweden (Roman Catholic) Patron saint of miscarriage prevention.

St. Gerard Majella (Roman Catholic) Patron saint of pregnancy and expectant mothers.

St. Monica (Roman Catholic) Patron saint of mothers.

Uma (India) She represented femaleness in all forms, particularly active ones, like childbirth.

Sri-Laksmi, The Lotus Goddess Power over fertility and abundance.

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Ajysyt (Siberia) Mother Goddess. Her name means "birth giver". She visits every mother among her followers and provides a soul for the newborns.

Artemis (Greece) Although the goddess of chastity, Artemis presides over childbirth because it was said that she caused her mother Leto no pain during delivery.

Diana (Roman) Goddess of the moon, forests, animals, and women in childbirth. Both a virgin goddess and an earth goddess, she was identified with the Greek Artemis.

The Hathors (Egypt) were "Fairy godmothers" who appeared at birth to bestow blessings to the newborn. They would set the child's destiny. The Hathors consisted of seven to nine young, beautiful women who danced and sang at the birth of a child. The Hathors are said have been created by Hathor herself, as she adopted seven to nine aspects of herself from her role as Mother Goddess.

Heket (Egypt) Wife of Khnum. Heket was associated with Hathor as a birth deity. She was said to be the birth goddess of all creatures.

Ilithyia (Greece) Once viewed as two separate goddesses, Ilithyia was brought together into one. She was the daughter of Hera who freed a child from her mother's womb.

Isis (Egypt) Queen of Egypt, Isis was the protector of motherhood, women, and healer of the sick. She also rules magic. Sick with grief concerning the murder of her husband Osiris by his brother Set, Isis reconstructed and reanimated his corpse long enough for it to impregnate her with their only son Horus.

Juno Sospita (Roman) Presides over labor and delivery.

Meskhent (Egypt) Egyptian goddess who presided over the delivery of babies. She was represented as a brick with a woman's head; the reason being that Egyptian women traditionally gave birth squatting over a brick. She also pronounced judgment over the new child. She was married to Shai who protected the destiny of newborns and children.

Mylitta (Babylon) Mylitta was identified with Aphrodite. She took special interests in the process of childbirth.

Nekhbet (Egypt) Vulture Goddess of Childbirth

Nintur (Sumeria) Another name for the goddess Ninhursaga, the Mother Goddess. Her name means "Lady Who Gives Form". She was represented as a woman holding a midwife's pail of water.

Pi-hsia-yuan-chun (China) Known as the "Princess of Streaked Clouds", she protects women, children, and presides over birth.

St. Anne (Roman Catholic) Patron saint of women in labor.

St. Margaret (Roman Catholic) Patron saint of women giving birth.

Selket (Egypt) Selket was the scorpion headed goddess. Goddess of scorpions, magic, childbirth and nursing.

Taueret (Egypt) Goddess of childbirth; Taueret took the form of a pregnant hippopotamus in hopes that her hideous form would scare away any demons after the newborn infant.