Talk:List of Roman birth and childhood deities

Splendid
I've re-rated it; it's FA material, and a delight to read. Haploidavey (talk) 11:36, 12 May 2012 (UTC)
 * My Mother's Day gift to myself. (In the U.S., anyway; we used to always miss Irish Mother's Day for that side of the family. But I digress.) There is a sticky point with Levana that I need to sort out; seems as if she's usually seen as overseeing the father's "lifting" or acknowledgment, but then either Turcan or Rüpke saw the lifting as what the women did (like "catching," I guess; did you see that odd bit in Taurian Games about the gymnastics on the bull's-hide "trampoline"?) and the deity invoked with the stat action as overseeing the father's approbation of the fit child, which does make sense. The major thing to work out is the Parcae and the Fata Scribunda. There's a major and oft-cited article on the Fata Scribunda that's tantalizingly available in preview, with a few key pages missing. Tomorrow I go to the library. (This is my traditional Mother's Day outing; the semester is over and the college students are gone, so there's parking, and when I come home a splendid meal is awaiting me.) The Fata is interesting because of the writing rather than speaking (fa-)—I think the preview article is suggesting that this is a precursor of (or perhaps even reflects the institutition of) Augustus's innovation of birth certificates? And of course the Julio-Claudians were keenly aware that the death of one child can make an enormous difference to the fate of "the world", as Augustus saw repeatedly.
 * Anyway, I'm glad you like this start of an article. I'd been wanting to put it together for ages, because I don't think all these birthing and child-rearing "divinities of the moment" make sense in separate articles. It's only when you see them in order that you get it. Some, however, do pop up in more than one context, or could sustain their own articles. Cynwolfe (talk) 16:00, 12 May 2012 (UTC)


 * This is the "start of an article"? Cripes. I came here expecting an alphabetical list (a, b, c, duh) and found something gripping and fully human. It's dramatic and whole, in the best possible sense. Enjoy your well-earned maternal comestibles! Haploidavey (talk) 16:31, 12 May 2012 (UTC)