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	Ilithyia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		According to Homer, there were several called Eileithyiai while Hesiod and Pausanias always claimed there was only one, known as Ilithyia.
		She was always the daughter of Zeus and Hera, but was sometimes said to come from Hyperborea, to the north of Greece, in order to aid Leto in giving birth to Artemis and Apollo, and other times she was born in Amnisos on Crete.
		While the record of her worship on mainland Greece is spotty at best, kourotrophos (small, terracotta figures) depicted an immortal nurse who took care of divine infants.
	www.1-free-software.com /en/wikipedia/i/il/ilithyia.html (271 words)

	Eileithyia
		According Homer Eileithyia was the goddess of birth-pain, but Homer was often thinking about a few Eileithyiai, the daughters of Hera.
		One, but mostly two women - Eileithyiai attend Zeus during the birth of Athena on the decoration of some fl figured vases from the 6th century BCE.
		Evidently, they are sisters, -daughters of Hera-, their type and clothes are similar.
	www.pantheon.org /articles/e/eileithyia.html (362 words)

	Maurizio Bettini Nascere / Weasels in English (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In Homer, Hera uses the goddesses of childbirth, Eileithyiai, to block Heracles's birth: as goddesses who normally untie the knots of birth, they could also be corrupted to bind or block the process.
		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.
		The Eileithyiai are thus the goddesses of knots, in relation to the body of a woman as it is tied and untied in her pregnancy and delivery.
	www.geocities.com /mauriziobettini/Nascere.html (8414 words)

	Ilithyia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Homer Iliad pictures Eileithyia alone, or sometimes multiplied, as the Eileithyiai:
		"The sharp sorrow of pain descends on a woman in labour, the bitterness that the hard Eileithyiai bring on, Hera’s daughters, who hold the power of the bitter birthpangs.” —Iliad XI.270.
		Vase-painters, when illustrating the birth of Athena from Zeus' head, may show two assisting Eileithyiai, with their hands raised in the epiphany gesture.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ilithyia (671 words)

	Ilithyia was the Greek goddess Greek goddess of childbirth and...
		According to Homer Homer, there were several called Eileithyiai Eileithyiai while Hesiod Hesiod and Pausanias Pausanias always claimed there was only one, known as Ilithyia.
		She was always the daughter of Zeus and Hera, but was sometimes said to come from Hyperborea Hyperborea, to the north of Greece, in order to aid Leto Leto in giving birth to Artemis and Apollo Apollo, and other times she was born in Amnisos Amnisos on Crete Crete.
		Two women, Eileithyiai, attended to Zeus while he gave birth to Athena Athena in some artwork.
	www.biodatabase.de /Ilithyia (335 words)

	Greek Mythology: ILITHYIA / EILEITHYIA Goddess of Childbirth & Women's Labour ( also Genetyllis Lucina Natio ) w/ ...
		According to some there were two Eileithyiai, one who furthered birth and one who protracted the labour.
		She was depicted as a woman wielding a torch, representing the burning pains of childbirth, or with her arms raised in the air summoning a child to the light.
		Natio was the Latin goddess of birth, worshipped in the region of Ardea.
	www.theoi.com /Ouranios/Eileithyia.html (4198 words)

	Ilithyia -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Homer (A Greek epic poem (attributed to Homer) describing the siege of Troy) Iliad pictures Eileithyia alone, or sometimes multiplied, as the Eileithyiai:
		The cave of Eileithyia near Amnisos, the harbor of (An ancient town on Crete where Bronze Age culture flourished from about 2000 BC to 1400 BC) Knossos, which the (A long wandering and eventful journey) Odyssey (xix.198) mentions in connection with her cult, was accounted the birthplace of Eileithyia.
		Alternative: Eilithia, Eilythia, Ilithia, Eileithyia, Eileithyiai, Eleuthia (Cretan dialect)
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/I/Il/Ilithyia.htm (760 words)

	nascere
		Eileithyiai seem to have formed a cultural group, in which the ideas of birth and of destiny were strongly
		In the Homeric text, the Eileithyiai seem to be the embodiment of the actual labor pains suffered by the
		The Eileithyiai are thus the goddesses of knots, in relation to the body of a woman as it is tied and untied in
	www.unisi.it /ricerca/centri/cisaca/nascere.html (8045 words)

	The TITANS & Greek Mythology - Atlantis Rising
		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.
		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.
		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:
	forums.atlantisrising.com /ubb/Forum1/HTML/000926.html (14347 words)

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