Mother’s Day in America falls on the second Sunday in May. This year it’s the 14th, and Grammarly has the requisite bullet points. Such celebrations (of motherhood) sometimes involved worship of a mother deity, such as the Goddess Isis in Ancient Egypt, or Cybele and Rhea in Ancient Greece. In other cases, celebrations were only tangentially about mothers: Mothering Sunday in the United Kingdom, for example, was originally dedicated to the “Mother Church,” but was later broadened to honor human mothers, to ......Read more