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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 ...
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Juno Lucina was chief among a number of deities who influenced or guided every aspect of birth and child development, such as Vagitanus, who opened the newborn's mouth to cry, and Fabulinus, who enabled the child's first articulate speech. The collective di nixi were birth goddesses, and had an altar in the Campus Martius.
Many of the indigitamenta are involved in the cycle of conception, birth, and child development (marked BCh); see List of Roman birth and childhood deities. Several appear in a list of twelve helper gods of Ceres as an agricultural goddess [17] or are named elsewhere as having specialized agricultural functions . Gods not appearing on either of ...
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In ancient Roman religion, the di nixi (or dii nixi), also Nixae, were birth deities.They were depicted kneeling or squatting, [1] a more common birthing position in antiquity than in the modern era. [2]
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In ancient Roman religion, Vagitanus or Vaticanus was one of a number of childbirth deities who influenced or guided some aspect of parturition, in this instance the newborn's crying. [1] Some sources relate it to the Latin noun vagitus , "crying, squalling, wailing," particularly by a baby or an animal, and the verb vagio, vagire . [ 2 ]