Founder: Gabriela Yasmin Szafman
The Kothirat, or Kathirat, are a group of Phoenician Marriage and Childbirth Goddesses, Who bring auspicious beginnings.
Their usual number is seven, and the name means "the Wise Goddesses", or "the Skillful Ones".
They preside over and help to plan weddings and the proper rituals of marriage, oversee conception and good sex, and protect the mother and child during birth.
They can grant children to childless couples through prayer and offerings, and were invoked to bless weddings.
The Kothirat are associated with the new or crescent moon, likely as a symbol of lucky beginnings and entering into a new stage of life, such as a wedding or the birth of a child, and with birds, especially swallows.
They are also named as the daughters of the Morning Star, which would link them to Anat or Ashtart, both Goddesses of the planet Venus.
According to a late Greek text, the seven daughters of El and Ashtart are called the Artemides.
As Artemis is strongly associated with childbirth, it is likely that these seven sisters are the Kothirat, and therefore the daughters of Ashtart and the God El.
In Dana'el and Danatay's story the Kothirat are called "those skilled in the pleasure of the bed of conception", indicating that their "skill" or "wisdom" includes not only the conception of a child, but the sexual joys that are had in the process!
The Kothirat share many aspects with Hathor, the Egyptian Goddess of Love and Beauty, who is also associated with celebration and childbirth; seven Hathors were said to attend the birth of a child and foretell its destiny, much like the Thirteen Faery Women of the Sleeping Beauty tale.
Also called: Senanot, "the Bird-Like Ones" or "the Swallows"; "Daughters of Joyous Song"; "The Swallow-like Daughters of the Crescent Moon".
The Kothirat Goddessess Will Help You With:
• Fertility Problems
• Finding Romance in Your Life
• Marriage
• Protection of Mother & Child during Birth
• Good Sex
• Pleasure in the Bed
• Auspicious Beginnings in New Stages of Life
• Beauty
