I read recently, in a pagan-ish account of the yearly cycle, that the spring equinox is when Demeter and Persephone are reunited after being apart all winter, and that "therefore this is a sacred time for mothers and daughters."

So I wonder if there really was a Greek remembrance of motherhood in the spring in ancient days... and if so, if Mothering Sunday could have been derived from it, since mid-Lent will always be in spring.

Marion