Geography/Culture: Roman.
Linguistic Note: from Greek osteon, 'a bone'; Latin os, ossis, 'bone'. Related English word: osseous.
Description: Goddess of the growth of the foetus {and the evolutionary development of the skeletal structure in animals}
. To Whom Sacred: {comfrey}; {skeleton}; {bones}; {fossilized bones}.

Titles/Variants, etc:
• She seems to be related to Carnea, Flesh, below, the Goddess associated with incarnating the spirit.
• Sur-title of: Juno, Shining-One, identifying Her as Goddess of the reproductive life of women (Juno-Ossipago).
• Perhaps She can be suitably identified with Sumerian Nagar-Saga, Framer-of-the-Fetus, below.

Geography/Culture: Roman.
Description: Goddess of death and resurrection; She Who holds the keys of the Underworld; Presider over embryonic development and the physical processes of survival.
To Whom Sacred: bean-plant (spiral-growth round props portends resurrection); bean-flower (because white); beans (the seed, they were believed by the Romans to contain souls looking for resurrection -- a fart indicates a soul who didn't succeed in becoming incarnated and is released again to the spirit world); pork (ritually eaten with beans: the pig is traditionally associated with death Goddesses); spiral patterns; keys of the underworld; the colour white.
Festival: June 1 -- (a feast of pork and beans).

Titles/Variants, etc:
• Sometimes identified with Cardea, The-Hinge.
• She is often identified with Greek Crane, The-Harsh-and-Stony-One, Who is linked with Amphictyonis, President-of-Neighbors.
• She seems related to Ossipago, Bone-Strengthener, above, by Her association with embryonic development.

Geography/Culture: Sumerian, Babylonian.
Description: Goddess of childbirth.

Titles/Variants, etc:
• Title of Aruru, {Bright-Mother-of-the-Hollow}.
• Title of Mami, Mother, Who is linked with Aruru, {Bright-Mother-of-the-Hollow}.
• See Her kinship to Roman Ossipago, Bone-Strengthener, above.