Ancient fertility goddess: Fertility in ancient Rome meant health, food and plenty. The Roman goddess of fertility had many guises like Venus, Juno, Ceres, Flora... The Lupercalia festivity in February became St. Valentine's.
Isis shares many of the same characteristics asHathor, the Egyptian goddess of Love and Fertility, but they are still two distinctly different goddesses. Outside of the Egyptian pantheon, Isis have a number of similarities with theNorse goddess Freyja. Isis and Ra Jeff Dahl,CC BY-SA 4.0, via...
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Dionysus, the Greek god of fertility, wine, and ecstasy, was popular throughout much of the ancient world. In Rome he was known as Bacchus. A complex deity, Dionysus played two very different roles in Greek mythology. As the god of fertility, he was closely linked with crops, the ...
12. Shu "God of Air" 13. Tefnut "Goddess of Moisture" 14. Bastet "Goddess of Beauty" 15. Thoth "God of Intellect" 16. Ptah "God of Memphis" 17. Khonsu "God of Lunar" 18. Khnum "God of Potters" 19. Hapi "God of Fertility" ...
The room with the Leda and the Swan scene was located "next to the entrance hall, where another fresco depicting Priapus (the ancient Greek god of fertility) had already been identified," Pompeii's cultural authorities also said. The painting is rich in colors, and quite explicit. It shows...
Min, in ancient Egyptian religion, a god of fertility and harvest, embodiment of the masculine principle; he was also worshipped as the Lord of the Eastern Desert. His cult originated in predynastic times (4th millennium bce). Min was represented with phallus erect, a flail in his raised ...
There were gods for the sun, the moon, the air; there were gods for fertility, life and the afterlife. And just because they represented one aspect of Egyptian existence didn't mean that they were stuck in that same dull office for all of eternity. Nor were they stuck with the same bo...
Ra – Centered in Heliopolis, the cult of Ra believed that Ra, or the sun god sailed across the sky and the underworld each day. He is depicted with a human body and head of a hawk, with a sun disk above. Hathor – Depicted as a cow, Hathor is the goddess of fertility and mother...
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