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Just as Shiva is at once the presiding deity of destruction and regeneration, the couple jointly symbolize at once both the power of renunciation and asceticism and the blessings of marital felicity. Parvati thus symbolizes many different virtues esteemed by Hindu tradition: fertility, marital felicity, devotion to the spouse, asceticism, and ...
Min, ancient Egyptian god of fertility and lettuce. Amun, creator-god, associated with fertility. Bastet, cat goddess sometimes associated with fertility. Hathor, goddess of music, beauty, love, sexuality and fertility. Heqet, frog-goddess of fertility. Heryshaf, god of creation and fertility. Isis, goddess of motherhood, magic and fertility.
Aditi (Sanskrit: अदिति, lit. 'boundless' or 'limitless' [a] or 'innocence' [2]) is an important Vedic goddess in Hinduism. She is the personification of the sprawling, infinite and vast cosmos. She is the goddess of motherhood, consciousness, unconsciousness, the past, the future, and fertility. [4] She is the mother of the celestial ...
Lajjā Gaurī is a lotus -headed Hindu goddess associated with abundance, fertility and sexuality, sometimes euphemistically described as Lajja ("modesty"). She is sometimes shown in a birthing posture, but without outward signs of pregnancy. [1] 6th century Lajja Gauri relief from Madhya Pradesh.
The Trimurti are the most prominent deities of contemporary Hinduism. This consists of Brahma - the Creator, Vishnu - the Preserver, and Shiva - the Destroyer. Their feminine counterparts are Saraswati - the wife of Brahma, Lakshmi - the wife of Vishnu, and Parvati (or Durga) - the wife of Shiva. Statue of Brahma.
Shashthi. Shashthi or Shashti (Sanskrit: षष्ठी, Bengali: ষষ্ঠী, Ṣaṣṭhī, literally "sixth") is a Hindu goddess, venerated in Nepal and India as the benefactor and protector of children. She is also the deity of vegetation and reproduction and is believed to bestow children and assist during childbirth. She is often ...
Bahuchara Mata. Bahuchara Mata (Hindi: बहुचरा माता, romanized: Bahucharā Mātā; Gujarati: બહુચર માતા, romanized: Bahuchara Mātā) is a Hindu goddess of chastity and fertility in her maiden aspect, of the incarnation of the Hinglaj. The goddess grants favours, especially to male children, and cures ...
She is the goddess of wealth, fortune, prosperity, beauty, fertility, royal power and abundance. [10] Lakshmi is the supreme goddess in Vaishnavism. [3] She along with Parvati and Saraswati, forms the Tridevi. [11] [12] Within the goddess-oriented Shaktism, Lakshmi is venerated as the prosperity aspect of the Mother goddess.