Jivantika Maa

Jivantika Maa

Devi Jivantika Maa

 Jivantika Maa

She is the Divine Goddess of Midwifery. Jivantika is also the guardian of children. The cult of mother goddess worship  led to the divine baby sitter also. Love for the family and their children are beyond motherly frailties. It is instinctive of mothers to nurture and protect their offspring. Mothers appeased the gods and goddesses to avoid harm to their families.  This culminated in worshipping fierce goddesses who
personify childhood protection against ailments and fatal diseases. Fierce child
protection goddesses of note are Jivantika and Goddess Shasti (posted earlier).
Shasti is the companion of the boy-god Sastha. She is the Goddess of Married
Women, Fertility and Childbirth. She represented fertility, pregnancy and
childbirth protection. It is said that this companionship is indicative of her
protecting the young, symbolically Shashta and his cat. It is said Shahsti
visits the child the first week of birth and writes their destiny on their
forehead. Jivantika, on the other hand is infinite protection.

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