Having seen examples of vertical births in pre-Columbian art, we take a new walk through this way of giving birth that was natural centuries ago. Vertical or squatting births are nothing new, and today we want to bring you some samples of vertical births in Egyptian art.
The stone representation of the Temple of Hathor (Dendera) shows a woman giving birth squatting, with the assistance of two goddesses. They are Hathor and Taweret, which as we saw is an Egyptian goddess who represents herself pregnant, precisely to whom the pregnant women used to entrust them so that everything went well, and made offerings or carried her in amulets.
Goddess Hathor, meanwhile, was a guardian of women and domestic happiness, it is believed that she was also present in some way in all births.
The other image represents Cleopatra's delivery, also squatting, and it is a replica of this event that occurred in Ancient Egypt around 46 BC. As we see, the ceremonial and sacred character of birth is reflected, surrounded by assistants (one of them breastfeeds a child) and symbols of the deity.
As we see, In ancient Egypt, it was usual to give birth vertically or squat, as these images show, they only pick up the "natural" way in which most women gave birth centuries ago throughout the world.
