Mother’s Day As We Know It
For most of us, Mother’s Day is a day to honor, thank and pamper the mothers in our lives; but Mother’s Day as we know it today, started out a little differently.
In ancient cultures, people didn’t worship human mothers, but rather mother-like female deities. The Egyptians celebrated one of the first annual festivals in honor of the mother deity Isis. The Romans celebrated the Phrygian goddess, Cybele, and the Greeks celebrated Rhea, the Greek mother of the gods. Both the Roman and Greek celebrations occurred in the early spring.
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