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Statue of a goddess of fertility, Copenhagen. A fertility deity is a god or goddess associated with fertility, sex, pregnancy, childbirth, and crops. In some cases these deities are directly associated with these experiences; in others they are more abstract symbols. Fertility rites may accompany their worship. The following is a list of ...
Piero di Cosimo: Venus, Mars and Cupid, Cupid (lying on Venus) clings to a white rabbit, a symbol of birth and fertility. Fertility in art refers to any artistic work representing or portraying fertility, which usually refers to successful breeding among humans, although it may also mean successful agriculture and animal husbandry.
Apulian calathus in Gnathian style, circa 325-300 BC, Metropolitan Museum of Art.. A calathus / ˈ k æ l ə θ ə s / or kalathos / ˈ k æ l ə ˌ θ ɒ s / (Ancient Greek: κάλαθος, plural calathi or kalathoi κάλαθοι) was a basket in the form of a top hat, used to hold wool or fruit, often used in ancient Greek art as a symbol of abundance and fertility.
Demeter in an ancient Greek fresco from Panticapaeum, 1st century Crimea. While travelling far and wide looking for her daughter, Demeter arrived exhausted in Attica . A woman named Misme took her in and offered her a cup of water with pennyroyal and barley groats, for it was a hot day.
The snake and phallus were symbols of Dionysus in ancient Greece, and of Bacchus in Greece and Rome. [ 306 ] [ 307 ] [ 308 ] There is a procession called the phallophoria , in which villagers would parade through the streets carrying phallic images or pulling phallic representations on carts.
A similar belief existed in the ancient Mesopotamians and Semites, and appears also in Hindu mythology. [17] The Pelasgian myth of creation refers to snakes as the reborn dead. [ 18 ] However, Martin P. Nilsson noticed that in the Minoan religion the snake was the protector of the house, [ 16 ] as it later appears also in Greek religion . [ 19 ]
As a symbol of fertility, white rabbits appear on a wing of the high altar in Freiburg Minster. They are playing at the feet of two pregnant women, Mary and Elizabeth. Martin Schongauer's engraving Jesus after the Temptation (1470) shows nine (three times three) rabbits at the feet of Jesus Christ, which can be seen as a sign of extreme vitality.
Atargatis (known as Derceto by the Greeks [1]) was the chief goddess of northern Syria in Classical antiquity. [2] [3] Primarily she was a fertility goddess, but, as the baalat ("mistress") of her city and people she was also responsible for their protection and well-being.