Translation for '
Eileithyia' from English to Russian
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- Also at Tegea, Pausanias, describes an image of Auge on her knees, at the temple of Eileithyia, the goddess of childbirth.
- The cave may have once been a shrine to a female deity - Artemis, Diktynna or perhaps Eileithyia.
- Eileithyia Cave (also the Cave of Eileithyia) was a sacred cave dedicated to the goddess of childbirth, Eileithyia, on the island of Crete, that was used from the Neolithic era to the Roman, with worship flourishing in the Late Minoan period.
- One site is the cave of the goddess Eileithyia. It contained objects dating as far back as the neolithic period.
- Another epithet of Poseidon was "e-ne-si-da-o-ne" ("earth-shaker") and in the cave of Amnisos (Crete) "Enesidaon" is related to the cult of Eileithyia.
- It was dedicated to Eileithyia, a Greek goddess of fertility and childbirth of Cretan origin.
- As goddesses of birth who even prophesied the fate of the newly born, Eileithyia, the ancient Minoan goddess of childbirth and divine midwifery, was their companion.
- Evadne was a nymph daughter of Poseidon and a lover of Apollo. She bore him a son, Iamos. During the time of the childbirth, Apollo sent Eileithyia, the goddess of childbirth to assist her.
- For R. F. Willets, Cretan dialect 'Eleuthia' would connect Eileithyia (or perhaps the goddess "Eleutheria") to Eleusis. The name is probably related with a city in Crete named Eleutherna.
- His mother was the goddess Eileithyia. There was a sanctuary of him inside the sanctuary of Eileithyia at Olympia, Greece.
- The Greek goddess of childbirth, Eileithyia, bestowed him with a shield.
- Some information can be obtained from the study of the cult of Eileithyia at Crete, and the cult of Despoina.
- Artemis was worshipped as one of the primary goddesses of childbirth and midwifery along with Eileithyia.
- According to him, the Beauty of Durrës represents the Cretan goddess Eileithyia, who was goddess of childbirth and midwifery, assisting in the healthy delivery of infants.
- A sanctuary dedicated to Eileithyia, had been placed in the northwestern section of the building.
- According to some, she is associated with the Moirai (as a fate goddess) and Eileithyia (as a birth goddess); she somehow organized a man's thread of life, at birth, by some sort of stitching work (similar to Clotho of the Moirai).
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