Postvorta
Roman · numen · regal · Recorded classification
Postvorta takes the breech birth — the child that comes the wrong way round, and the dangerous case. Her name turns backwards as Antevorta's turns forwards, and the pair were also read as knowledge of the past against knowledge of the future. Roman religion is full of this: a risk is analysed into its outcomes, and each outcome is given a name that can be addressed.
Domains
- childbirth
Relations
- ally: AntevortaPaired with Antevorta: between them they cover the two ways a child can present at birth.Reference treatment pairing Antevorta and Postvorta among the Camenae. (secondary)
- ally: CarmentaOne of the four Camenae.Reference treatment listing the four Camenae. (secondary)
- ally: EgeriaOne of the four Camenae.Reference treatment listing the four Camenae. (secondary)
Sources
- Postvorta is a Roman birth goddess, one of the four Camenae, invoked for the child that presents feet first, and associated with what is past.: Reference treatment of the four Camenae and of Antevorta and Postvorta as birth goddesses. (secondary)