God Giving Birth is a 1968 painting by the Swedish artist Monica Sjöö. It shows a nude woman whose face is half dark and half light, with the head of a child emerging from her birth canal. Sjöö was an exponent of second-wave feminism and the Goddess movement. During the birth of her second son, she had inner visions that made her view motherhood in a religious light, and this inspired her to paint God Giving Birth.
First exhibited in the United Kingdom in 1970 and 1973, God Giving Birth drew criticism from Christian groups who accused it of blasphemy. It has been discussed by modern pagans as a religious image and among feminist scholars for its way of connecting spiritual and physical creation. It is in the collection of the Museum Anna Nordlander [sv] in Skellefteå, Sweden.
throughout the world. In 1968, Monica Sjöö painted her most famous work, GodGivingBirth, depicting a naked woman standing to deliver her baby, with its head...
detailed accounts. According to Apollodorus, Rhea, after givingbirth to Zeus in a cave in Dicte, gives him to the nymphs Adrasteia and Ida, daughters of Melisseus...
A multiple birth is the culmination of one multiple pregnancy, where in the mother givesbirth to two or more babies. A term most applicable to vertebrate...
matriarchs givingbirth where the God of Israel miraculously intervenes. For example, within the Rabbinic literature expansions were made on the birth of the...
"God is dead" (German: Gott ist tot [ɡɔt ɪst toːt] ; also known as the death of God) is a statement made by the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche...
Agnes of God is a 1979 play by American playwright John Pielmeier which tells the story of a novice nun who givesbirth but does not believe she has. The...
accounts of Dionysus' birth into a single narrative involving not only multiple births, but two or three distinct manifestations of the god on earth throughout...
would fulfil the prophecy that a virgin would givebirth to a son, who would be known as Emmanuel, meaning "God is with us". Joseph awoke, took Mary for his...
and she givesbirth to the faboulous horse Arion. At Tilpusa we have a very old cult of the chthonic deities Erinys and Poseidon. The water-god Poseidon...
equivalents in Greek, Μήτηρ Θεοῦ and Θεοφόρος ("Who gave birth to one who was God", "Whose child was God", respectively). The title has been in use since the...
eventually accepted by God, and Mary's mother became pregnant. Her father Imran had died before the child was born. After her birth, she was taken care of...
herself into a she-wolf before givingbirth. This is given as the reason why Homer describes Apollo as the "wolf-born god". Libanius wrote that neither...
virgin birth opens with an announcement to Mary by the angel Gabriel while Mary is being raised in the Temple after having been pledged to God by her...
The date of the birth of Jesus is not stated in the gospels or in any historical sources and the evidence is too incomplete to allow for consistent dating...
There are various names of God, many of which enumerate the various qualities of a Supreme Being. The English word god (and its equivalent in other languages)...
describes the new birth as taking place from the seed which is the Word of God. In the Gospel of Luke, Jesus himself refers to the Word of God as the seed....
University. Chancellor later joined the band Peach. Peach released the album GivingBirth to a Stone and two EPs, and supported Tool in 1994 in Europe before breaking...
The Birth of Venus (Italian: Nascita di Venere [ˈnaʃʃita di ˈvɛːnere]) is a painting by the Italian artist Sandro Botticelli, probably executed in the...
(Jesus is a messenger of God but also a human being and not the Second Person of the Christian Trinity). 18: Now the birth of Jesus the Messiah took...
the term *hyy (life), referring to Enki's waters as life-giving. Enki/Ea is essentially a god of civilization, wisdom, and culture. He was also the creator...
of magic, later on Jacob says to his wives that it was God who made the livestock givebirth to the convenient offspring, in order to turn the tide against...
Egypt. He was the god of the sun, order, kings and the sky. Ra was portrayed as a falcon and shared characteristics with the sky-god Horus. At times, the...
the sun Kagu-tsuchi (kami), blacksmith god of fire whose birth burned his mother Izanami to death Kōjin, god of fire, hearth, and the kitchen Konohanasakuya-hime...
frequently than any other. The phrase is used after the birth of a child as a means of praising God. It is also part Islamic funeral and burial customs....