Eileithya (Ilithya) Greek Goddess of childbirth.
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Eileithya (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.
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