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2. Phallic saint - Wikipedia

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   Phallic saints are representations of actual saints or local deities who are invoked for fertility.More than vulgar representations of the phallus, phallic saints are benevolent symbols of prolificacy and reproductive fruitfulness, and objects of reverence and especial worship among barren women and young girls.

3. List of fertility deities - Wikipedia

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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 ...

4. Obando Fertility Rites - Wikipedia

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   The rites, especially the fertility dance, are popular with pilgrims from all over the Philippines, most of whom supplicate the triad of saints for a child, a spouse, or general good fortune. Throughout the three days, devotees joyously dance in the streets as a form of prayer, asking for the spirit of life to enter into the wombs of women.

5. 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 ...

6. Fertility rite - Wikipedia

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   Fertility rites or fertility cult are religious rituals that are intended to stimulate reproduction in humans or in the natural world. [1] Such rites may involve the sacrifice of "a primal animal, which must be sacrificed in the cause of fertility or even creation".

7. Patron saints of ailments, illness, and dangers - Wikipedia

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   Saints have often been prevailed upon in requests for intercessory prayers to protect against or help combatting a variety of dangers, illnesses, and ailments. This is a list of saints and such ills traditionally associated with them. In shorthand, they are called the patron saints of (people guarding against or grappling with) these various ...

8. Ritual of oak and mistletoe - Wikipedia

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   They believe that mistletoe given in drink will impart fertility to any animal that is barren and that it is an antidote to all poisons. [ 1 ] [ 6 ] While Pliny does not indicate the source on which he based this account, French archaeologist Jean-Louis Brunaux ( fr ) has argued for Posidonius of Rhodes, a polymath who flourished in the 1st ...

9. Xōchiquetzal - Wikipedia

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   Xochiquetzal, from the Codex Rios, 16th century.. In Aztec mythology, Xochiquetzal (Classical Nahuatl: Xōchiquetzal [ʃoːt͡ʃiˈket͡saɬ]), also called Ichpochtli Classical Nahuatl: Ichpōchtli [itʃˈpoːtʃtɬi], meaning "maiden"), [7] was a goddess associated with fertility, beauty, and love, serving as a protector of young mothers and a patroness of pregnancy, childbirth, and the ...