The idea of the Great Mother is present in several creation stories. In India, Mata Devi squeezed milk from her "ample breasts" to feed all of mankind. In Assyria and Polynesia, the Great Mother birthed only one egg from which all mankind originated. In Babylon, Ishtar gave birth from her "cosmic uterus" which is drawn out in the stars, where as Gaea, in Rome, emerged from the "primal vagina." And in Greece, "Mother Earth" formerly became Eleusis, who gave birth to a sheath of corn every year, associating women and fertility with crop and harvesting. Aside from the power of fertility, the goddess also had the power of death. If the Great Mother could bring man into the world, it seemed feasible enough that she could take him out. In mythologies, goddesses rounded up the dead "like a sheepdog" (Miles) Rosalind Miles, The Women's History of the World.1989.

Florence Nightingale, the daughter of the wealthy landowner, William Nightingale of Embly Park, Hampshire, was born in Florence, Italy, on 12th May, 1820. Her father was a Unitarian and a a member of a reforming British political party that supported the aristocracy and later the business community, finally becoming the core of the Liberal Party who was against enslaved labor hard work, especially for low pay and under bad conditions . As a child, Florence was very close to her father, who, without a son, treated her as his friend and companion. He took responsibility for her education and taught her Greek, Latin, French, German, Italian, history, philosophy and mathematics. Florence, went to Kaiserwerth, Germany where she studied to become a nurse at the Institute of Protestant Deaconesses. When William Russell publicized the fact that a large number of British soldiers were dying of cholera there was a public outcry, and the government was forced to change its mind about Florence rejection in the creer of