>>sure is that she birthed Urd. She wasn't around to raise the kid, that job
>>fell to Bell's mom. There's practically no chance of Urd's mom being in
>>Heaven. My conjecture holds.
>
>Maybe,... but where in the manga have we ever seen mention of Bell and
>Skuld's mom ever having an active hand in raising them?

Unfortunately, Brian - I think that people are long forgetting that the
heavens differ greatly from the Surface World itself.  At about age 6,
Belldandy was already training for her goddess credentials - her trainer?
Kami-sama, of course.  Personally, I think that the idea of a mother and
father (the way we think) is completely absent from the lives of the
goddesses (and gods).

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