Eileithya
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(Ilithya) Greek Goddess of childbirth.
Daughter of Hera and Zeus. Eileithya is met in accounts
of the births of Heracles and of Leto's delivery of her
divine twins, Apollo and Artemis. Eileithya is probably
a pre-Olympian goddess whose function was to take
care of women in childbirth. She was sometimes identified
with Hera, sometimes with Artemis.