Kalligeneia

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Kalligeneia is a goddess invoked by women during the third day of the Thesmophoria, known as kalligeneia or "beautiful birth". She is prayed to for personal fertility, although some locales such as Eretria did not call upon her in this festival.

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“On this day, women called upon the goddess Kalligeneia, praying for their own fertility. Plutarch notes that in Eretria the women did not call upon Kalligeneia during the Thesmophoria.”

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