# Postverta

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{{Short description|Roman goddess}}
In [Roman mythology](/source/Roman_mythology), '''Postverta''' or '''Postvorta''' was the goddess of the past and one of the two [Carmentes](/source/Camenae) (along with her sister [Antevorta](/source/Antevorta), or  '''Prorsa''', a [contracted](/source/contraction_(grammar)) form of ''Proversa'').<ref>[Ovid](/source/Ovid), ''[Fasti](/source/Fasti_(poem))'', I. 633</ref><ref>[Aulus Gellius](/source/Aulus_Gellius), ''Attic Nights'', XVI. 16</ref><ref>[Macrobius](/source/Macrobius), ''Saturnalia'', I. 7</ref><ref>[Servius](/source/Maurus_Servius_Honoratus)' commentary to [Aeneid](/source/Aeneid), VIII. 339</ref> They were companions of the goddess [Carmenta](/source/Carmenta), and probably embodied her aspects as the goddess of the past (Postvorta) and the future (Antevorta, or Prorsa).

During childbirth, prayers were offered to summon the Carmentes to preside over the labor.<ref>[Varro](/source/Varro), cited by [Aulus Gellius](/source/Aulus_Gellius) in his ''Attic Nights'', XVI. 16</ref> Porrima was said to be present at the birth when the baby was born head-first; Postverta, when the [feet of the baby came first](/source/breech_birth).

==See also==
*[Camenae](/source/Camenae)
* [List of Roman birth and childhood deities](/source/List_of_Roman_birth_and_childhood_deities)

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.mythindex.com/roman-mythology/P/Postverta.html Myth Index - Postverta]

{{Time in religion and mythology}}

Category:Childhood goddesses
Category:Roman goddesses
Category:Time and fate goddesses

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