Mother goddesses

Greece marked Mother's Day on Sunday with a series of events held by municipalities to honor motherhood.

Officials and ordinary citizens sent wishes for a better future for mothers and their children in the country which is set to exit an acute eight-year debt crisis this summer.

Archaeologists have discovered a unique statue of the goddess Isis and a marble head of satire in the Sanctuary of the Nymphs and Aphrodite near the Dimitrovgrad village of Kasnakovo.

Valuable finds are extremely well preserved and according to experts, their value may exceed BGN 1 mln.

An estimated 2,100-year-old rare marble statue of Cybele, the mother goddess of Anatolia, has been unearthed in excavations in Ordu, which is a port city on the Black Sea coast of Turkey. The historic sculpture of Cybele sitting on her throne weighs 200 kilos and is about 110 centimeters tall.

Archaeologist and coordinator of the program Erasmus of Crete Technological Institute Gareth Owens gives a different version of Phaistos Disk mystery.

He said that following new data found in his research the focus is no longer the “pregnant mother”, as originally estimated, but a “pregnant goddess” that takes shape in the face of Astarte, the goddess of love.

Lisa Hotton established her business in the Financial Sector in 2004. Back then, she had never heard of the terror organization known as ISIS. She named her New Zealand company Isis after the Egyptian goddess of beauty and femininity.

Modern

Modern history traces the origin of Mother’s Day to the UK and the United States in the late 19th century, however the roots of the Spring festival celebrated on the second Sunday in May stem back to antiquity. Ancient Greeks held an annual spring festival to honor Rhea, the Titan daughter of Gaia, the earth goddess and sky god Uranus.