fertility rite
Harvest blessing ritual
A fertility rite is a religious or ceremonial practice intended to promote reproduction—of humans, animals, or crops.
Such rituals appear across cultures and throughout history, often involving symbolic acts like planting seeds, sexual imagery, or invoking deities associated with abundance: Ancient fertility rites celebrated the spring planting season.
The term sometimes appears dismissively to characterize practices the speaker considers primitive or superstitious.
- harvestGathering mature crops
- harvest festivalAutumn event thanking for crops
- goddessFemale sacred being
- offeringSomething presented or given
- blood offeringRitual gift of life fluid
sacrifice · rain dance · seed · planting · ceremony · sacred grove · pagan · earth · womb · rebirth · sacred · dance · chant · moon · spring · spring equinox · abundance · blessing
- mythsmyth, legend, fable, fairy tale, folk tale
- ritualsceremony, sacrament, blessing, prayer, baptism
- fertilityfecundity, conception, reproduction, ovulation, procreation
- ancient riteshuman sacrifice, animal sacrifice, blood sacrifice, burnt offering, burnt offerings
- Folkwayscustom, folk belief, folk remedy, folk medicine, folk song
- paganismWicca, pagan, heathen, polytheist, polytheism
fertility ritefuneral
Service honoring the dead
funeral rite · last rites · death rite · mourning ritual · memorial service
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