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Gods/Goddesses/Demigods * Aphrodite - Greek. see love. (DM.24) * Dionysus - Fertility god of the Greeks (see lust) (DM. 73) * Flora - Roman goddess of fertility and death (DM.209) * Freya - Norse goddess of love, beauty and fertility. Friday is named in her honor. (DM.98) * Istar - Babylonian goddess of love and fertility. wife of Tammuz (DM.142) * Maia - the mst beautiful Pleiad. Became a fertility goddess (DM.165) * Neptune - Roman god of water, rain and fertility. (see agriculture) (DM.183) * Ops - Roman goddess of the harvest and fertility. (see agriculture) (DM193) * Persephone - goddess of fertility and death. (DM.209) Symbols and Objects * Acorn - fertility, prosperity and power of spiritual growth from the 'Kernal of Truth' - Sacred to the Norse god Thor. (DS.9) * Almonds - see 'mandorla' * Diamond - see 'Dorje' * Dorje - Tantric buddhist scepter. Also northern india "vajra" at once, a jewel, thunderbolt, and phallus. The thunder bolt is the lightning god as fertilizer of Mother Earth's hidden depths. and the gems being solid drips of his divine semen'" also called a 'diamond holder' - the diamond represents the divine spirit sensed through sexual orgasm. Hence, the diamond is a symbol of royal power and power of love (WDS.22) * Double Triangle - (looks like a sand timer) - it is the conjunction of male and female powers. (top=female, bottom=male) Creation in Tantric tradition. (see time) (WDS.35) * Jar - a fertility symbol in Egypt and the middle east. Isis (Egyptian) wore a jar pendant representing her 'fountains of living water' (WDS.14) * Mandorla - "almond" - female genitals/maternity charm. Israelites made use of almonds fertility "mana". (also see creativity) - the name of the symbol is also 'yoni' and 'visica piscis' (WDS.10) * "Menat" - Egyptian - the symbol is a union of the male and female symbols. Meant to restore the power of reproduction in the afterlife. (used as an amulet for the dead) - it was carried by gods, kings, priests and pristesses. (WDS.97) * Rod - is a scepter for rulers (biblical) also the king's sexual attatchment to the goddess of the land. A blossoming Rod is a general symbol of fertility. (WDS.28,29) (see power) * Scepter (see Rod) * Spear - In Japanese creation myths, the spear of the first god reached down to stir and fertilize the womb of the deep. lightning phallus fertilizing the sea mother (WDS,30) * 6 pointed star (2 triangles) - found in several cultures as a symbol of union between male (triangle) and female (upsidedown triangle). In India, perpetual sexual union between kali and shiva maintaining life in the universe. It reached Judaism through tantric influence. Medieval Jewish cabalists spoke of desired reunion between god and his spouse. In India, the union of fire and water also equals fertilization of the premordial female deep. Fire from heaven! Alchemy used the symbol for Alcohol (fire water) and in the new world for sun. (WDS. 69) * Thyrus - the sacred rod of Dionysus (greek) or Bacchus (Roman) - said to be able to turn water into wine. Carried by the god and his women devotees, the Maenads, who used it as a weapon. (WDS.31,32) * Trident (tripple with x) - related to the trident and thunderbolt. The pagan god's union with the tripple goddess (WDS.32) |