fertility cult
Fecundity-focused religion
A fertility cult is a religious practice centered on worship of deities or forces believed to promote reproduction—of humans, animals, or crops.
Such cults typically involved rituals, offerings, and symbols associated with sexuality and agricultural abundance.
The term appears mainly in anthropological and historical discussions of ancient religions: The temple artifacts suggest a fertility cult dedicated to the mother goddess.
Modern usage sometimes applies the label dismissively to any belief system emphasizing procreation.
- goddessFemale sacred being
- moon goddessDeity of lunar realm
- great motherElder female ancestor or admirable mom
- ritualCeremonial set of actions
- ritual danceFormalized sacred choreography
harvest · pagan · sacred · sacred grove · womb · earth · mother · offerings · ritual sacrifice · sacrifice · temple · priestess · rites · ancient · worship · seed · rebirth · ceremony
- ancient religiongods, goddesses, pantheon, deity, polytheism
- paganismWicca, pagan, heathen, polytheist, polytheism
- fertility worshipharvest god, Demeter, Ceres, harvest festival, first fruits
- prehistorystone tools, Neolithic, Stone Age, caveman, cavemen
- Ancient LevantCanaan, Canaanites, Phoenicia, Phoenicians, Levant
- Ancient Near EastMesopotamia, Sumer, Babylon, Assyria, Assyrian Empire
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Group venerating mortality
doomsday cult · suicide cult · ancestor worship · ancestor veneration
fertility cultmonasticism
Cloistered religious living
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