Editing Eileithyia (section)

=== Delos ===
According to the [[Homeric Hymn]] III to [[Delos|Delian]] Apollo, Hera detained Eileithyia, who was coming from the [[Hyperborea]]ns in the far north, to prevent [[Leto]] from going into labor with Artemis and Apollo, since the father was her husband Zeus. Hera was jealous of Zeus's affairs and tended to enact revenge upon the women. The other goddesses present at the birthing on Delos had sent [[Iris (mythology)|Iris]] to bring Eileithyia forth. As she stepped upon the island, the birth began. This hymn is contradicted by [[Hesiod]]'s [[Theogony]], where Apollo and Artemis are born before Hera's marriage to Zeus, and therefore neither Hera or Eileithyia are mentioned interfering with the birth of the twins.<ref name="912–923"/> On Delos, a shrine was dedicated to Eileithyia, and was worshipped in a mid-winter festival the named ''Eileithyaea''.<ref name=":02">{{Cite journal|last=Robertson|first=N.|date=1974|title=Greek Ritual Begging in Aid of Women's Fertility and Childbirth|journal=Transactions of the American Philological Association|volume=113|pages=143–169|doi=10.2307/284008|jstor=284008}}</ref> It was said by [[Callimachus]] that the hymn sung during festival was the same as that sung by nymphs at Apollo's birth. This cult likely goes back to the Archaic period, and the cult was associated with other local Delian childbirth deities associated with Artemis, [[Upis (mythology)|Upis]] and Arge.<ref name=":02" />