Every year on the second Sunday in May, 96 countries around the world celebrate Mother's Day.

Dozens of other countries celebrate the same thing on different days throughout the year.

Mother's Day wasn't always a thing, however.

Its creation was due to a small number of very Mother's Day wasn't always a thing, however.

Its creation was due to a small number of very determined women and of course greeting card companies.

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I know I'm beginning to sound like a broken record, but the history of Mother's Day goes back to the ancient Mediterranean. The ancient

Fregian people who came from the region which is now modern Turkey

had a goddess named Sibili which was the motherhood goddess.

Sibili was sort of adopted by the Greeks who put elements of it into their life goddess of Gaya, their mother goddess of Raya, and the harvest mother goddess of Demeter.

The Romans took the goddess Sibaly and turned it into the Magna Mader, or the great mother.

The feast day for the motherhood goddess was really a feast for the goddess and motherhood, not for mothers per se. If anything, mothers had extra duties on the

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