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  2. Fertility rite - Wikipedia

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    In many Christian traditions, Easter service at dawn, or the service of the Resurrection, is held in the Acre of God, where the bodies of the dead are "sown as a seed". [18] Many fertility rites that have spiritual origins such as European Christians and Pagans drew their methods from "myths, imagery, and ritual practices from the religions". [19]

  3. Obando Fertility Rites - Wikipedia

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    The fertility rites were initially done in honour of the anito Diyan Masalanta, the Tagalog goddess of love, Lakapati, the Tagalog fertility deity, and Bathala, the supreme deity of the Tagalog people. The rites were performed within the vicinity of a dambana. When the Spanish arrived, they forcibly converted the natives to Roman Catholicism ...

  4. Fertility and religion - Wikipedia

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    Fertility symbols were generally considered to have been used since Prehistoric times for encouraging fertility in women, although it is also used to show creation in some cultures. Wedding cakes are a form of fertility symbols. In Ancient Rome, the custom was for the groom to break a cakes over the bride's head to symbolize the end of the ...

  5. What Is Beltane? All About the Traditions Behind May Day - AOL

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    Beltane, the May 1 pagan holiday, is a celebration of fertility and fire. Skip to main content. Sign in. Mail. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ...

  6. Swabian-Alemannic Fastnacht - Wikipedia

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    A likely derivation looked to Proto-Indo-European pwo-"purify" (cognate to pava-mana), or alternatively to Middle High German vaselen "prosper, bud", and interpreted the festival as a fertility rite. [ citation needed ] Historians around Werner Mezger refuted those theories, and showed that the name derives from fasten ("to fast") and the ...

  7. Sexual ritual - Wikipedia

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    Sexual rituals fall into two categories: culture-created, and natural behaviour, the human animal having developed sex rituals from evolutionary instincts for reproduction, which are then integrated into society, and elaborated to include aspects such as marriage rites, dances, etc. [1] Sometimes sexual rituals are highly formalized and/or part of religious activity, as in the cases of hieros ...

  8. Ritual of oak and mistletoe - Wikipedia

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    Miranda Aldhouse-Green has argued that, although Pliny is the only authority to mention this ceremony, the main elements of his account are all features of Celtic religion that are confirmed elsewhere; these include oak trees, mistletoe, ritual banqueting, the moon, and bull-sacrifice.

  9. 30 Christmas Traditions From Around the World - AOL

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    Beyond the familiar traditions like Santa Claus, a fir tree, caroling and gift-giving, a number of countries—including the U.S.—bring their own unique twists, both old and new, to the holiday.