This concept was the domain of Erua, an aspect of Marduk’s consort Ṣarpanītū. Rodnovery (“rod-NOV-ery”) revived a Slavic folk practice in which people with this condition keep faceless Pelenashka dolls secret. Egyptian pottery depicting a deity of this concept was found on Crete in a cave named for Eileithyia (“ill-ih-THIGH-uh”), another deity of this concept. In Egypt, people with this condition used ankh-like tjeti knots, while in Mesopotamia, apotropaic talismans of Pazuzu protected people with this condition from a chimeric deity. That deity, Lamashtu, was believed to cause cot deaths by tapping (10[2])people with this condition seven times on the stomach. For 10 (10[1])points, people pray to fertility goddesses (10[3])hoping to obtain what condition leading to childbirth? ■END■