god
Eileithyia
also: Εἰλείθυια
Goddess of childbirth, kept on Olympus by a jealous Hera so that Leto's labour cannot begin; the other goddesses bribe her down to Delos with a golden necklace, and only then is Apollo born.
Reading notes
- The Homeric Hymns §3.62 Eileithyia
Goddess of childbirth, kept on Olympus by a jealous Hera so that Leto's labour cannot begin; the other goddesses bribe her down to Delos with a golden necklace, and only then is Apollo born.
- The Odyssey §19.165 Eileithyia
Goddess of childbirth. Her cave at Amnisus on Crete is the landfall where the disguised Odysseus, spinning his tale to Penelope, claims a storm once drove the real Odysseus ashore on the way to Troy.