The Origins of Mothers Day
By Janice Kaye
Most people mistakenly believe that Mother's Day is an invention of the greeting card manufacturers and flower shops - a cynical ploy to make the nation spend millions of dollars each year on greetings cards and flowers. However, the roots of the holiday are more elevated than this and go back much further, right back to the times of the ancient Greeks and Romans.
Historians believe that the earliest celebration of Mother's Day was the ancient springtime festivals in Greece and Rome, dedicated to the mother goddesses, Rhea and Cybele.
In England "Mothering Sunday", similar to Mother's Day is observed on the fourth Sunday in Lent. It is believed that the early church adapted the ancient celebr...
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