After experiencing a vision of her creator within a hibernation pod simulation, Mother became pregnant and gave birth to a levitating snake-like creature of biotechnical matter.
We first learned that Tempest (Jordan Loughran) was pregnant during one of her very first appearances in season 1, and that it was the result of a rape that took place while she was in stasis.
Snakes have two different ways of producing young, either by laying eggs or live birth. The snakes that have live birth do not carry their babies in the womb like mammals; rather, they grow their babies inside of their bodies as if they were in eggs.
Although they are a female only species, they have a number of options in order to become pregnant and have children. First is asexually through parthenogenesis, creating a genetically similar female child. To do this, lamia copulate with each other to promotes self-fertilization during ovulation.
Guinness World Records named Beatie the "World's First Married Man to Give Birth" in 2010. In a TV broadcast from Rome, Italy, Guinness World Records presented him with the title of "Unico Uomo Incinto al Mondo", translated as "World's First Pregnant Man".
A firstborn (also known as an eldest child or sometimes firstling) is the first child born to in the birth order of a couple through childbirth. Historically, the role of the firstborn child has been socially significant, particularly for a firstborn son in patriarchal societies.
Maria del Carmen Bousada de Lara is the oldest verified mother; she was aged 66 years 358 days when she gave birth to twins; she was 130 days older than Adriana Iliescu, who gave birth in 2005 to a baby girl. In both cases, the children were conceived through IVF with donor eggs.
Lamia, in Classical mythology, a female daemon who devoured children. The ancient commentaries on Aristophanes' Peace say she was a queen of Libya who was beloved by Zeus. When Hera robbed her of her children from this union, Lamia killed every child she could get into her power.
Greco-Roman mythology
In the Latin Vulgate Book of Isaiah 34:14, Lilith is translated lamia.
It is unclear when and how Mother became associated with the name "Lamia;" whether it was given to her by Campion Sturges, or whether she simply chose it herself when the Mithraic visitors asked her name in the first episode. Regardless, Ridley Scott's choice of this name is no coincidence.
More recently, a woman in Indonesia supposedly gave birth to a lizard. She had all the warning signs of being pregnant with a real homosapien baby, but instead of birthing one of those she pushed out a lizard. It was covered in blood and mucus. No baby was found in the womb.
In 1998, researchers from the Kansas State University reported that a copperhead snake that had been in captivity and without any male contact for three years had given birth to two female offspring by parthenogenesis.
Dany did not “give birth” to dragons. She hatched dragon eggs that had previously been dead.
This statement is particularly pertinent to Mother, with the Necromancer built to exterminate entire populations should she deem it necessary. The Necromancers in Raised by Wolves are shown to store powers in their eyes, which is why people can't look at them directly.
She explained: "Well, that's Sue forming into a tree. You know, she is the tree of knowledge. It's the idea of: she bargained with Sol to… she wanted to protect Paul at all costs – 'don't harm him. Whatever you want, just don't harm Paul.
As Mother freaks out, the veil spreads over her body and chokes her, further evidence Raised by Wolves loves a cocoon moment.
The old wisdom that men and women are moulded from the same clay must have inspired the story about Adam's first wife, created by God from the same dust as Adam. Her name was not Eve, but Lilith.
The Bible mentions the Lilith only once, as a dweller in waste places (Isaiah 34:14), but the characterization of the Lilith or the lili (in the singular or plural) as a seducer or slayer of children has a long pre-history in ancient Babylonian religion.
Echidna, (Greek: “Snake”) monster of Greek mythology, half woman, half serpent.
According to Apollodorus, Rhea gave the infant Zeus to the nymphs Adrasteia and Ida, daughters of Melisseus, to nurse, and they fed Zeus on the milk of the goat Amalthea.
Medea and her sons by Jason are to be banished from Corinth. In revenge, she murders Creusa with poisoned gifts. Later, she murders her own sons by Jason before fleeing for Athens, where she eventually marries king Aegeus.
Eileithyia was considered a secondary goddess of Greek divinity-mythology. However, she was well known as the goddess of labour and protection of the newborn.
The website of the world record authority Guinness World Records lists the oldest father ever as Australian Les Colley (1898-1998), who allegedly fathered his ninth child at age 92 with a Fijian woman he met through a dating agency.
A woman's peak reproductive years are between the late teens and late 20s. By age 30, fertility (the ability to get pregnant) starts to decline. This decline happens faster once you reach your mid-30s. By 45, fertility has declined so much that getting pregnant naturally is unlikely.