fertility ritual
Harvest blessing rite
A fertility ritual is a ceremony or practice intended to promote reproduction—whether human conception, abundant crops, or thriving livestock.
Such rituals appear across cultures and throughout history, often involving symbolic acts, offerings, or invocations to deities associated with procreation and growth: Ancient fertility rituals were performed at the spring equinox.
The term sometimes carries connotations of the primitive or pagan.
- harvestGathering mature crops
- harvest festivalAutumn event thanking for crops
- paganNon-mainstream religion follower
- goddessFemale sacred being
- wombFetal development organ
seed · planting · corn dolly · dance · rain dance · sacrifice · offering · full moon · moon · spring equinox · earth · abundance · blessing · ceremony · rite · sacred grove · solstice · bonfire
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