They also were at the birth of Confucius in 598 BC and at the births of Zoroaster, Mithra, and Osiris. Buddha s mother was Maia, as was the mother of Hermes. Bacchus and Adonis both had mothers named Myrrha, and even Krishnas mother was called Marima. The mother of a Siamese saviour was Maya Maria. It appears that the same root word applied to all of these mothers.
Water is also a purifier, and the myth of baptism to purify is a common one.
Christians have John the Baptist, but the gods of India, Greece and Egypt also urged baptism. In Egypt the god Anup was called the baptiser . Apollo, Bacchus, Jupiter, Hermes, Mithra and Krishna all were born in caves or cribs. The word creche originally meant cave, not crib. Crib meant stable, creche meant cave.