List of Roman birth and childhood deities

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Relief from a child's sarcophagus depicting a nursing mother with the father looking on (c. 150 AD) Sarcophagus Marcus Cornelius Statius Louvre Ma659 n1.jpg
Relief from a child's sarcophagus depicting a nursing mother with the father looking on (c. 150 AD)

In ancient Roman religion, birth and childhood deities were thought to care for every aspect of conception, pregnancy, childbirth, and child development. Some major deities of Roman religion had a specialized function they contributed to this sphere of human life, while other deities are known only by the name with which they were invoked to promote or avert a particular action. Several of these slight "divinities of the moment" [1] are mentioned in surviving texts only by Christian polemicists. [2]

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An extensive Greek and Latin medical literature covered obstetrics and infant care, and the 2nd century Greek gynecologist Soranus of Ephesus advised midwives not to be superstitious. But childbirth in antiquity remained a life-threatening experience for both the woman and her newborn, with infant mortality as high as 30 or 40 percent. [3] Rites of passage pertaining to birth and death had several parallel aspects. [4] Maternal death was common: one of the most famous was Julia, daughter of Julius Caesar and wife of Pompey. Her infant died a few days later, severing the family ties between her father and husband and hastening the civil war that ended the Roman Republic. [5] Some ritual practices may be characterized as anxious superstitions, but the religious aura surrounding childbirth reflects the high value Romans placed on family, tradition (mos maiorum), and compatibility of the sexes. [6] Under the Empire, children were celebrated on coins, as was Juno Lucina, the primary goddess of childbirth, as well as in public art. [7] Funerary art, such as relief on sarcophagi, sometimes showed scenes from the deceased's life, including birth or the first bath. [8]

Only those who died after the age of 10 were given full funeral and commemorative rites, which in ancient Rome were observed by families several days during the year (see Parentalia). Infants less than one year of age received no formal rites. The lack of ritual observances pertains to the legal status of the individual in society, not the emotional response of families to the loss. [9] As Cicero reflected:

Some think that if a small child dies this must be borne with equanimity; if it is still in its cradle there should not even be a lament. And yet it is from the latter that nature has more cruelly demanded back the gift she had given. [10]

Sources

The most extensive lists of deities pertaining to the conception-birth-development cycle come from the Church Fathers, especially Augustine of Hippo and Tertullian. Augustine in particular is known to have used the now-fragmentary theological works of Marcus Terentius Varro, the 1st century BC Roman scholar, who in turn referenced the books of the Roman pontiffs. The purpose of the patristic writers was to debunk traditional Roman religion, but they provide useful information despite their mocking tone. [11] Scattered mentions occur throughout Latin literature.

The following list of deities is organized chronologically by the role they play in the process. [12]

Conception and pregnancy

The gods of the marriage bed (di coniugales) are also gods of conception. [13] Juno, one of the three deities of the Capitoline Triad, presides over union and marriage as well, and some of the minor deities invoked for success in conceiving and delivering a child may have been functional aspects of her powers.

Child's sarcophagus (150-160 AD) depicting the festivities attending the birth of Dionysus; the basin at far left represents the baby's first bath Roman - Sarcophagus Depicting the Birth of Dionysus - Walters 2333.jpg
Child's sarcophagus (150-160 AD) depicting the festivities attending the birth of Dionysus; the basin at far left represents the baby's first bath

The Parcae

The Parcae are the three goddesses of fate (tria fata): Nona , Decima , and Parca (singular of Parcae), also known as Partula in relation to birthing. Nona and Decima determine the right time for birth, assuring the completion of the nine-month term (ten in Roman inclusive counting). [44] Parca or Partula oversees partus, birth as the initial separation from the mother's body (as in English '"postpartum"). [45] At the very moment of birth, or immediately after, Parca establishes that the new life will have a limit, and therefore she is also a goddess of death called Morta (English "mortal"). [46] The profatio Parcae, "prophecy of Parca," marked the child as a mortal being, and was not a pronouncement of individual destiny. [47] The first week of the child's life was regarded as an extremely perilous and tentative time, and the child was not recognized as an individual until the dies lustricus .

Birthing

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Relief of a midwife assisting in a birth

The primary deity presiding over the delivery was Juno Lucina, who may in fact be a form of Diana. Those invoking her aid let their hair down and loosened their clothing as a form of reverse binding ritual intended to facilitate labor. [48] Soranus advised women about to give birth to unbind their hair and loosen clothing to promote relaxation, not for any magical effect. [49]

Swaddled infant (Gallo-Roman terracotta votive) Bebe Ex-voto gallo-romain Musee Saint-Remi 120208.jpg
Swaddled infant (Gallo-Roman terracotta votive)

Into the light

A goddess suckling a toddler and seated in the wicker chair characteristic of Gallo-Roman goddesses (2nd or 3rd century, Bordeaux) Deesse mere MAN St Germain.jpg
A goddess suckling a toddler and seated in the wicker chair characteristic of Gallo-Roman goddesses (2nd or 3rd century, Bordeaux)

Lucina as a title of the birth goddess is usually seen as a metaphor for bringing the newborn into the light (lux, lucis). [59] Luces, plural ("lights"), can mean "periods of light, daylight hours, days." Diespiter, "Father of Day," is thus her masculine counterpart; if his name is taken as a doublet for Jupiter, then Juno Lucina and Diespiter can be understood as a male-female complement. [60]

Diespiter, however, is also identified in Latin literature with the ruler of the underworld, Dis pater. The functions of "chthonic" deities such as Dis (or Pluto) and his consort Proserpina are not confined to death; they are often concerned with agricultural fertility and the giving of nourishment for life, since plants for food grow from seeds hidden in the ground. In the mystery religions, the divine couple preside over the soul's "birth" or rebirth in the afterlife. The shadowy goddess Mana Genita was likewise concerned with both birth and mortality, particularly of infants, as was Hecate. [61]

In contrast to the vast majority of deities, both birth goddesses and underworld deities received sacrifices at night. [62] Ancient writers conventionally situate labor and birth at night; it may be that night is thought of as the darkness of the womb, from which the newborn emerges into the (day)light.

The cyclical place of the goddess Candelifera, "She who bears the candle", [63] is uncertain. It is sometimes thought that she provides an artificial light for labor that occurs at night. A long labor was considered likely for first-time mothers, so at least a part of the birthing process would occur at night. [64] According to Plutarch, [65] light symbolizes birth, but the candle may have been thought of as less a symbol than an actual kindling of life, [66] or a magic equivalent to the life of the infant. [67] Candelifera may also be the nursery light kept burning against spirits of darkness that would threaten the infant in the coming week. [68] Even in the Christian era, lamps were lit in nurseries to illuminate sacred images and drive away child-snatching demons such as the Gello. [69]

Neonatal care

Tomb relief from Ostia showing mother and child (ca. 50 AD) Plaque in tomb relief showing mother and child, Ostia, 50 A.D Wellcome M0015210.jpg
Tomb relief from Ostia showing mother and child (ca. 50 AD)

Once the child came into the light, a number of rituals were enacted over the course of the following week. [70] An offerings table received congratulatory sacrifices from the mother's female friends. [71] Three deities—Intercidona, Pilumnus, and Deverra—were invoked to drive away Silvanus, the wild woodland god of trees: [72] three men secured the household every night by striking the threshold (limen; see liminality) with an axe and then a pestle, followed by sweeping it.

Drawing of a scene from an Etruscan mirror, in which Uni (Juno) suckles the adult Hercle (Hercules) before he ascends to immortality Bronzespiegel von Volterra.jpg
Drawing of a scene from an Etruscan mirror, in which Uni (Juno) suckles the adult Hercle (Hercules) before he ascends to immortality

In the atrium of the house, a bed was made up for Juno, and a table set for Hercules. [73] In the Hellenized mythological tradition, Juno tried to prevent the birth of Hercules, as it resulted from Jupiter's infidelity. Ovid has Lucina crossing her knees and fingers to bind the labor. [74] Etruscan religion, however, emphasized the role that Juno (as Uni) played in endowing Hercle with his divine nature through the drinking of her breast milk.

Child development

In well-to-do households, children were cared for by nursemaids (nutrices, singular nutrix, which can mean either a wet nurse who might be a slave or a paid professional of free status, or more generally any nursery maid, who would be a household slave). Mothers with a nursery staff were still expected to supervise the quality of care, education, and emotional wellbeing of children. Ideally, fathers would take an interest even in their infant children; Cato liked to be present when his wife bathed and swaddled their child. [81] Nursemaids might make their own bloodless offerings to deities who protected and fostered the growth of children. [82] Most of the "teaching gods" are female, perhaps because they themselves were thought of as divine nursemaids. The gods who encourage speech, however, are male. [83] The ability to speak well was a defining characteristic of the elite citizen. Although women were admired for speaking persuasively, [84] oratory was regarded as a masculine pursuit essential to public life. [85]

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Head of a child from the Antonine era
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Roman boy wrapped in his cloak (1st century AD)

Children wore the toga praetexta , with a purple band that marked them as sacred and inviolable, and an amulet (bulla ) to ward off malevolence.

Later literature

James Joyce mentions a few Roman birth deities by name in his works. In the "Oxen of the Sun" episode of Ulysses , he combines an allusion to Horace (nunc est bibendum) with an invocation of Partula and Pertunda (per deam Partulam et Pertundam) in anticipation of the birth of Purefoy. Cunina, Statulina, and Edulia are mentioned in Finnegans Wake . [101]

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