In Greek myths, Artemis was the virgin goddess of childbirth. Why is a virgin connected with childbirth?
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That stuff about the Great Mother is bull... it's not possible that every goddess originates from the Great Mother, which is what every scholar wants to argue.\n\nAnyway, the reason the virgin is connected to childbirth is that, according to the legend, she helped her mother give birth to her twin, Apollo.
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Apollo adopted the laurel as his sacred tree because he loved a nymph or Delphic tree-goddess named Daphne. She was indeed his first love, but as he pursued her, she turned into a laurel tree to escape his embrace, sworn as she was to virginity in the service of Apollo's sister Artemis. The statue shown on the page linked below shows Daphne turning into a laurel tree as Apollo strives to grab her. This was the last work of Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680).
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Aphrodite is the goddess of love, beauty and sexual rapture.\n\nHer children were: \n(deities) Charites, Hymenaios, Priapus, Eros, Anteros, Hymenaios, Phobos and Aeneas, Deimos, Eunomia, Hermaphroditus, Peitho, Rhodos, Tyche, Harmonia\n\n(mortal) - Eryx, Aeneas
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You are talking about a myth.  That's like saying Eve is responsible for women having periods.  It's all mythology, made up stories to give an explanation to things that at the time were unexplainable.
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The Greeks came up with the name which in English is "Milky Way", but every culture had a name for it -- it's pretty conspicuous, after all.  \n\nThe Greek story is kind of goofy, but this is it: the goddesses Athena and Hera (goddesses of wisdom and married life, respectively) were out for a walk and came across what seemed to be an abandoned infant.  (Actually, it was the just-born Herakles [Hercules in Latin], whose mother Hera hated.  Athena had planted the child there.  Now go on with the story:)\n\n"Oh, the poor thing!" said Athena.  "Come, Hera, give it your breast!"  For Hera, being the Great Mother, was constantly in milk even though she herself was seldom pregnant.  Anyway, she did so, and Herakles sucked her nipple so powerfully that she yelped with pain and pulled him away.  When she did so a spurt of her milk flew into the sky and that's what caused the Milky Way.\n\nWell, I told you it was a goofy story, didn't I?  BTW a mouthful of the goddess' milk was enough to make Herakles immortal, so Hera never did manage to off the poor guy, though she made his life miserable.
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Horus\nhttp://www.religioustolerance.org/chr_jcpa5.htm\n\n\nEdit:\nAll of the research I have done claims that Horus was born of a virgin...so the myth goes anyways.
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From among the descendants of Eve, God chose the Virgin Mary to be the mother of his Son. "Full of grace", Mary is the most excellent fruit of redemption: from the first instant of her conception, she was totally preserved from the stain of original sin and she remained pure from all personal sin throughout her life. \n\nMary is truly "Mother of God" since she is the mother of the eternal Son of God made man, who is God himself. \n\nMary remained a virgin in conceiving her Son, a virgin in giving birth to him, a virgin in carrying him, a virgin in nursing him at her breast, always a virgin: with her whole being she is "the handmaid of the Lord" (Lk 1:38). \n\nThe Virgin Mary cooperated through free faith and obedience in human salvation. She uttered her yes in the name of all human nature. By her obedience she became the new Eve, mother of the living.
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The fable of Adam and Eve and the apple comes from Pandora's Box.  The virgin birth comes from Zeus' amorous adventures such as impregnating someone when he turned himself into a shower of gold.  Those are just a couple of them.  Read some of the myths and you will start to recognize them.
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I think it's best not to have preconceptions of child birth because what happens will happen and at the time all you will care about is meeting your child for the first time.  Pain is usually a worry when you don't know what is causing it or how to fix it.  In childbirth, you know there will be pain but you know why you are getting it and you also know that it will go away.  Once you look into your newborn's eyes you won't care a bit about how you feel.
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Greek mythology Artemis, is the daughter of Zeus and Leto and the twin sister of Apollo. In later times she was conflated with the goddess Diana of Roman mythology. In Etruscan mythology, she took the form of Artume.\n\nOr if you want to buy a missle please visit the link below
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Great article below:\n\nAthena\n\n"Athena is probably one of the more famous of the Goddesses of old. Images of her temple dominating the acropolis of Athens are familiar the world over, yet she was also worshipped in places outside Athens and Greece and her origins link her to distant north African divinities. She was held sacred in many other cities including Argos, Sparta, Troy, Smyrna, Epidaurus, Troezen and Pheneus"\n\nRead more:\n\nhttp://www.womanworship.co.uk/documents/Athene.htm?menu=men
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Technically, yes, if you define virgin as a woman who hasn't had vaginal sex. But, virgin has other meanings, as well. Virgin is often used to mean "the first time." So, you really do have to think about what it means to be a virgin, though. Its like the Bill Clinton notion that oral sex is not real sex. If you have all kinds of sex except vaginal sex, you might technically be a virgin, but what does that really mean in your life and value system?
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Mary is Ever Virgin\nExodus 13:2,12 - Jesus is sometimes referred to as the "first-born" son of Mary. But "first-born" is a common Jewish expression meaning the first child to open the womb. It has nothing to do the mother having future children.\n\nExodus 34:20 - under the Mosaic law, the "first-born" son had to be sanctified. "First-born" status does not require a "second" born.\n\nEzek. 44:2 - Ezekiel prophesies that no man shall pass through the gate by which the Lord entered the world. This is a prophecy of Mary's perpetual virginity. Mary remained a virgin before, during and after the birth of Jesus.\n\nMark 6:3 - Jesus was always referred to as "the" son of Mary, not "a" son of Mary. Also "brothers" could have theoretically been Joseph's children from a former marriage that was dissolved by death. However, it is most likely, perhaps most certainly, that Joseph was a virgin, just as were Jesus and Mary. As such, they embodied the true Holy Family, fully consecrated to God.\n\nLuke 1:31,34 - the angel tells Mary that you "will" conceive (using the future tense). Mary responds by saying, "How shall this be?" Mary's response demonstrates that she had taken a vow of lifelong virginity by having no intention to have relations with a man. If Mary did not take such a vow of lifelong virginity, her question would make no sense at all (for we can assume she knew how a child is conceived). She was a consecrated Temple virgin as was an acceptable custom of the times. \n\nLuke 2:41-51 - in searching for Jesus and finding Him in the temple, there is never any mention of other siblings. \n\nJohn 7:3-4; Mark 3:21 - we see that younger "brothers" were advising Jesus. But this would have been extremely disrespectful for devout Jews if these were Jesus' biological brothers. \n\nJohn 19:26-27 - it would have been unthinkable for Jesus to commit the care of his mother to a friend if he had brothers.\n\nJohn 19:25 - the following verses prove that James and Joseph are Jesus' cousins and not his brothers: Mary the wife of Clopas is the sister of the Virgin Mary. \n\nMatt. 27:61, 28:1 - Matthew even refers to Mary the wife of Clopas as "the other Mary."\n\nMatt. 27:56; Mark 15:47 - Mary the wife of Clopas is the mother of James and Joseph.\n\nMark 6:3 - James and Joseph are called the "brothers" of Jesus. So James and Joseph are Jesus' cousins.\n\nMatt. 10:3 - James is also called the son of "Alpheus." This does not disprove that James is the son of Clopas. The name Alpheus may be Aramaic for Clopas, or James took a Greek name like Saul (Paul), or Mary remarried a man named Alpheus.\n\n\nJesus' "Brothers" (adelphoi)) = Cousins or Kinsmen\nLuke 1:36 - Elizabeth is Mary's kinswoman. Some Bibles translate kinswoman as "cousin," but this is an improper translation because in Hebrew and Aramaic, there is no word for "cousin." \n\nLuke 22:32 - Jesus tells Peter to strengthen his "brethren." In this case, we clearly see Jesus using "brethren" to refer to the other apostles, not his biological brothers.\n\nActs 1:12-15 - the gathering of Jesus' "brothers" amounts to about 120. That is a lot of "brothers." Brother means kinsmen in Hebrew.\n\nActs 7:26; 11:1; 13:15,38; 15:3,23,32; 28:17,21 - these are some of many other examples where "brethren" does not mean blood relations.\n\nRom. 9:3 - Paul uses "brethren" and "kinsmen" interchangeably. "Brothers" of Jesus does not prove Mary had other children.\n\nGen. 11:26-28 - Lot is Abraham's nephew ("anepsios") / Gen. 13:8; 14:14,16 - Lot is still called Abraham's brother (adelphos") . This proves that, although a Greek word for cousin is "anepsios," Scripture also uses "adelphos" to des
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Virgo. The Virgin is a symbol. That is part of September. After the 23rd, it becomes Libra.
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I've already done this kind of project for myself, so I like to think I know what I'm doing and that I'm correct in my mythology, I love mythology. By the time I'm done, this answer will be quite long and will read both as the social pages and genealogical survey of the Ancient Gods. I have to say, unfortunately, that several of the answers previous to my own are incorrect. Allow me to offer the proper "translations" for you and I hope you find them helpful.\n\nSun = In some myths, Helios is the sun itself, Apollo is the god of the sun, drawing the sun behind his chariot across the Daytime sky. (Oddly enough, Apollo is both Greek and Roman)\n\nMercury = Hermes, the male messenger of the gods. His counterpart, Hebe, a daughter of Zeus and Hera, served as female messenger, cupbearer, or handmaiden to Hera, depending on the myth.\nMercury has no known satelites.\n\nVenus = Aphrodite, the goddess of love.\nVenus has no satelites.\n\nEarth = Gaia, the original mother; a Titan goddess.\nEarth's satelite = The Moon: In some myths, Selene is the moon itself, and sister to Helios. The twin sister of Apollo, Artemis, is the goddess of the moon, and draws the moon behind her chariot across the Nighttime sky. (Artemis is called Diana in Roman myths)\n\nMars = Ares, the god of war. \nMars's satelites = Phobos and Deimos: sons by Aphrodite are Fear and Panic.\n\nJupiter = Zeus, seemingly god of most everything else that isn't designated to another deity.\nJupiter's satelites = Metis, goddess of Wisdom, mother of Athena; Adrastea, goddess of reward, punishment and divine retribution, daughter of Ananke; Amalthea, in some myths, the nymph or her goat who nursed the infant Zeus; Thebe, a nymph; Io, a mortal maiden; Europa, a mortal princess, the mother of Minos; Ganymede, a mortal boy, whom Zeus incorporated as male cupbearer to the gods; Callisto, a maid attending Artemis, the mother of Arcas. Through circumstances, Callisto and Arcas were transformed into the constellations Ursa Major and Ursa Minor; Leda, the mortal mother of 2 sets of twins...by Zeus, Pollux and Helen (of Troy), by her husband, Castor and Clytemnestra. Castor and Pollux are the constellation Gemini; Himalia, a nymph; Lysithea, daughter of Oceanus; Elara, the mother of a giant; Ananke, goddess of Destiny, mother of Adrastea and the Fates; Carme, goddess of grain, mother of Britomartis; Pasiphae, the wife of Minos and mother of the Minotaur; Sinope, a mortal woman.\n\nSaturn = Cronos, the god of agriculture, father of Zeus (along with Demeter, Hades, Hera, Hestia, and Poseidon).\nSaturn's satelites = Pan, a faun (part human, part goat) god of the woods; Atlas, a Titan, who bears the heavens on his shoulder, brother to Prometheus and Epimetheus; Prometheus, the one who brought fire to mankind, and paid for it; Pandora, the one who opened her infamous Box, wife to Epimetheus; Epimetheus, mythologically, he made the animals of the world, a task so wonderful his brother Prometheus tried to beat his efforts; Janus, the god of gates and doorways, with a face pointing in 2 directions; Mimas, a Titan slain by Heracles*; Enceladus, a Titan supposedly buried under Mt. Etna; Tethys, a Titan goddess of the Sea; Telesto, a sea nymph, daughter of Tethys; Calypso, goddess of Silence, Dione, depending on the myth, she and Zeus are the parents of Aphrodite (in other myths, Aphrodite was born of the foam of the sea where it churned the dismembered parts of Uranus); Helene, an Amazon; Rhea, wife of Saturn, mother of Demeter, Hades, Hera, Hestia, Poseidon, and Zeus; Titan, giant children of Gaia and Uranus; Hyperion, a Titan, father of Helios and Selene; Iapetus, a Titan, father of Prometheus, Epimetheus, and Atlas; Phoebe, grandmother to Apollo and Artemis.\n\nUranus = Ouranos, god of the heavens.\nUranus's satelites (don't seem to be steeping in mythological context, but in Shakespeare) = Cordelia, "King Lear"; Ophelia, "Ham
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Well... The Virgin Mary is the mother of God. She gave birth to Jesus Christ.\nSaint Brigid was the daughter of Dubtach, pagan Scottish king of Leinster, and Brocca, a Christian Pictish slave who had been baptized by Saint Patrick. Just before Brigid's birth, her mother was sold to a Druid landowner. Brigid remained with her mother till she was old enough to serve her legal owner Dubtach, her father. \n\nSaint Brigid is the Patron Saint of babies and children who's parents are not married.
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Aphrodite isn't the Goddess of Venus or the moon. She's the Greek Goddess of Love, Beauty and Fertility. The confusion comes from the fact that the Greeks and Romans had an almost identical pantheon of Gods and Goddesses. The Goddess that was known to the Greeks as Aphrodite was Venus to the Romans (the planet was named after the Goddess, not the other way around). \n\nSome people confuse Aphrodite with Artemis. Artemis was the Greek Goddess of the hunt and was often associated with the moon (sensible as one hunts best at night under a full moon).\n\nAt any rate the Greeks and Romans did not believe that their Gods and Goddesses ruled over any planets but simply associated certain planets with them.