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Priapus, Greek god of fertility, gardens and male genitalia. Hermes, messenger of the gods, possibly associated with male fertility; Hera, goddess of marriage, women, women's fertility, childbirth; Heracles, god of strength and athletes, had an association with male fertility as well as agriculture.
Inanna's name is also used to refer to the Goddess in modern Neopaganism and Wicca. [393] Her name occurs in the refrain of the "Burning Times Chant," [394] one of the most widely used Wiccan liturgies. [394] Inanna's Descent into the Underworld was the inspiration for the "Descent of the Goddess," [395] one of the most popular texts of ...
Diana is the only pagan goddess mentioned by name in the New Testament (only in some Bible versions of Acts 19; many other Bibles refer to her as Artemis instead). As a result, she became associated with many folk beliefs involving goddess-like supernatural figures that Catholic clergy wished to demonize.
A possible theory of a foreign origin for the name may be Heqet (ḥqt), a frog-headed Egyptian goddess of fertility and childbirth, who, like Hecate, was also associated with ḥqꜣ, ruler. [26] The word heka in the Egyptian language is also both the word for "magic" and the name of the god of magic and medicine, Heka. [27]
In some cults she is the healer goddess of women with the surnames Lousia and Thermia. [39] Artemis is the leader of the nymphs and she is hunting surrounded by them. [40] The nymphs appear during the festival of the marriage, and they are appealed by the pregnant women. [41] Artemis became goddess of marriage and childbirth.
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Ēostre or Ostara, the goddess of spring; Fjörgyn, the female personification of the earth. She is also the mother of the goddess Frigg and, very rarely, mother of Thor; Freyja, goddess of fertility, gold, death, love, beauty, war and magic; Freyr, god of fertility, rain, sunlight, life and summer
Fulvius Stellus hated women and used to consort with a mare and in due time the mare gave birth to a beautiful girl and they named her Epona. She is the goddess that is concerned with the protection of horses. So Agesilaüs in the third book of his Italian History. [18]