Birthhood

Conception, gestation and birthhood are the sublimest manifestations of the God-power among men!

Accept me on your laps And let me close your womb The fortune of your birthhood [...]

[...] its lights still burning with undiminished splendor; its altars still blazing with their sacred fires; its truth still pure as in the day of its birthhood; [...]

I am too much the geneticist to believe that the carrier's interest in the baby "outbonds" the interest of the married couple who donated their gametes in a preembryonic "bond," watched the entity they created achieve birthhood, and then stood by and saw their procreative dreams dashed by a cheating contract-breaker.

Also Alexander, as well as several Hindu Sages, as Salivahana and Gautama, bore the mantle of divine birthhood, being said to have been produced by a serpent entwining around their mothers.