Sky Woman's Daughter
The daughter born to Sky Woman on the new earth, mother of the twins Sapling and Flint, who dies giving birth to them; in many tellings the food plants grow from her grave.
Divine domains
Gods of Birth
3 deities from 3 traditions whose entries in this atlas list birth among their domains, grouped by tradition.
Haudenosaunee
Hittite
Hannahanna
The Hittite mother goddess, 'the Grandmother', who when every other god has failed sends a bee to find the missing Telipinu.
Mesopotamian
Ninhursag
The great Sumerian mother goddess, 'Lady of the Mountain', who presides over birth and the shaping of humankind. Under names such as Ninmah, Nintu, and Aruru, she fashions people from clay; in the Epic of Gilgamesh, as Aruru, she creates Enkidu.
Quick answers
- Who is the Haudenosaunee god of birth?
- In the Mythos Atlas catalog, the Haudenosaunee deity whose domains include birth is Sky Woman's Daughter.
- Who is the Hittite god of birth?
- In the Mythos Atlas catalog, the Hittite deity whose domains include birth is Hannahanna.
- Who is the Mesopotamian god of birth?
- In the Mythos Atlas catalog, the Mesopotamian deity whose domains include birth is Ninhursag.
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