Mother’s Day (Encore)

Everything Everywhere Daily

Gary Arndt

History, Education

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2023

⏱️ 8 minutes

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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 determined people…and, of course, greeting card companies. Learn more about Mother’s Day and how it became a holiday on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Sponsors BetterHelp is an online platform that provides therapy and counseling services to individuals in need of mental health support. The platform offers a range of communication methods, including chat, phone, and video sessions with licensed and accredited therapists who specialize in different areas, such as depression, anxiety, relationships, and more. Get 10% off your first month at BetterHelp.com/Everywhere ButcherBox is the perfect solution for anyone looking to eat high-quality, sustainably sourced meat without the hassle of going to the grocery store. With ButcherBox, you can enjoy a variety of grass-fed beef, heritage pork, free-range chicken, and wild-caught seafood delivered straight to your door every month. Visit ButcherBox.com/Daily to get 10% off and free chicken thighs for a year. InsideTracker provides a personal health analysis and data-driven wellness guide to help you add years to your life—and life to your years. Choose a plan that best fits your needs to get your comprehensive biomarker analysis, customized Action Plan, and customer-exclusive healthspan resources. For a limited time, Everything Everywhere Daily listeners can get 20% off InsideTracker’s new Ultimate Plan. Visit InsideTracker.com/eed. Subscribe to the podcast! https://link.chtbl.com/EverythingEverywhere?sid=ShowNotes -------------------------------- Executive Producer: Charles Daniel Associate Producers: Peter Bennett & Thor Thomsen Become a supporter on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingeverywhere Update your podcast app at newpodcastapps.com Discord Server: https://discord.gg/UkRUJFh Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/everythingeverywhere/ Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/everythingeverywheredaily Twitter: https://twitter.com/everywheretrip Website: https://everything-everywhere.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following is an encore presentation of Everything Everywhere Daily.
0:04.0	Every year on the second Sunday in May, 96 countries around the world celebrate Mother's Day.
0:13.0	Dozens of other countries celebrate the same thing on different days throughout the year.
0:17.0	Mother's Day wasn't always a thing, however.
0:20.0	Its creation was due to a small number of very determined women and of course greeting card companies.
0:25.7	Learn more about Mother's Day and how it became a holiday on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. everywhere daily. I know I'm beginning to sound like a broken record, but the history of Mother's Day goes back to the ancient Mediterranean.
0:52.0	The ancient Phrygian people who came from the region
0:54.5	which is now modern Turkey had a goddess named Sibili which was the motherhood goddess.
0:59.7	Sibili was sort of adopted by the Greeks who put elements of it into their life goddess of Gaya,
1:05.0	their mother goddess of Rea, and the Harvest Mother Goddess of Demeter.
1:09.0	The Romans took the goddess Sibili and turned it into the Magna Madder, or the great mother.
1:15.4	The feast day for the motherhood goddess was really a feast for the goddess and motherhood
1:20.1	not for mothers per se. If anything, mothers had extra duties on the feast day
1:25.0	as far as going to the temple and sacrificing,
1:28.0	and it wasn't a day for doing stuff for mothers
1:30.0	or giving them gifts.
1:32.0	Something closer to our modern Mother's Day took place in
1:35.0	medieval Europe with Mothering Sunday. Mothering Sunday wasn't exactly like
1:39.5	Modern Mother's Day. It took place during Lent and it was a respite for fasting during the Lenten season.
1:45.1	The date became sort of a homecoming where people were expected to go back to their mother
1:50.1	church, which was usually the church where they were baptized or their local parish church.
1:55.0	There was also a lot of association with Mary, the Mother of Jesus.
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