Mother's Day

Since today is a special day I'm postponing the Weekly link round up until tomorrow. My men got me a brand new very nice camera, a lovely card signed by both of them, and a surprise gift traveling towards me at this very moment. In honor of Mother's Day I thought I would share a little info about all of the Mother Goddesses I can think of.

Bast

• Bast was one of the most highly honored feline gods
• She was a goddess of sex and fertility
• Also called Bastet
• She guarded rural fold and nobility alike
• Also seen as a goddess who protected mothers and their newborn children

Brighid

• The classic triple goddess (has two sisters also called Brighid)
• The patron of poets and bards as well as healers and magicians
• Especially honored when it comes to matters of prophecy and divination
• Honored during Imbolc
• Goddess of hearth and home, known to watch over women in childbirth
• associated with healing and crafts

Cybele

• Cybele's Lover was Attis, her jealousy caused him to castrate and kill himself (he is resurrected)
• Associated with the cycle of life, death, and rebirth

Demeter

• A goddess of grain and of the harvest
• When her daughter Persephone is abducted by Hades Demeter's grief caused the crops to die and go dormant
• Persephone escapes only after eating 6 pomegranate seeds and is doomed to spend six months of the year in the underworld
• Each year Demeter mourns the loss of her daughter for 6 months (the dark have of the year)

Freyja

• A goddess of love, fertility, war and wealth
• One of the Vanir (a Norse deity of earth and water that lived in Asgard)
• Could be called upon for assistance in childbirth, conception, to aid with marital problems, or to bestow fruitfulness upon the land and sea
• She owned a magickal cloak of hawks feathers, which allowed her to transform at will, a famous necklace named Brisingamen, and a chariot driven by large cats

Frigga

• Frigga was the wife of Odin
• A Goddess of fertility and marriage
• Associated with prophecy

Gaia

• Gaia personifies the Earth
• She is born of Chaos
• Brought forth the Sky, the Mountains, the Sea, and the God Uranus
• She is paired with Uranus to give birth to the first race of Divine beings (The three Cyclops [Bronte, Arges, and Steropes] the three Hecatoncheirs [each had a hundred hands] and the twelve Titans [led by Cronos became the elder Gods of Greek mythology])
• Uranus forced her offspring back inside her and she persuaded Cronos to castrate his father (who is later overthrown by Zeus, which she predicts)

Isis

• Goddess of magick
• Wife and sister of Osiris
• Mother of Horus
• The divine mother of every haraoh of Egypt
• Gained power over Ra by learning his true name
• Used her power to bring Osiris back to life (who was killed by his brother Set)

Juno

• Watched over women and marriage
• The month of June was named for her
• With Vesta (the protector of virginity) these two goddesses were sacred to Roman women

If I've missed any please fill me in!