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Happy Mayday! Originally, the Maypole was a living tree brought in from the woods with much merrymaking. Ancient Celts danced around the tree, praying for good crops and fertility. For youth, there was the possibility of courtship.
(illustration by Edith Alice Cubitt)

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2020-05-01

A Jack in the Green is a common sight around May Day festivities- once believed to be a remnant of a pre-Christianity fertility ritual, the practice is now thought to be tied to a seventeenth century custom of decorating milk pails, and then milk maids.

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2020-05-01

Concept art for a roof tile in Otto & the Ancient Worlds by , based on the Norse god of fertility and the sea — Njörd

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2020-04-29

Rite of fertility In the beginning of third spring in Grand Desert. The Elders came to cherish the seed of abundance.
Yet bravest people sometimes risk to watch it by their own eyes.

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2020-04-27

Inari Ōkami, the Japanese Kami (Shinto) of fertility, rice and tea. Inari's foxes, or kitsune, are pure white and act as her messengers.

Artwork ©

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2020-04-27

When I think of I think of the Greek god Depicted as a faun or satyr, Pan is the god of the mountain wilds, fertility, & woodwind music. (Coining the 'Pan Flute'). He is often seen frolicking amid the with beautiful 'Wood Nymphs'.

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2020-04-24

Once benevolent water & forest beings, Rusalki turned sour during C19, vengeful spirits of drowned maidens were taken in chez Rusalka and instead of granting fertility boons in spring, they now drown, tickle or dance their victims to death

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2020-04-23

Another goddess from my game

She's the patroness of fertility, motherhood and the seasons

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2020-04-20

Guillaume and Emma have everything a young couple could ask for: passion, stability, and love. But can they grow that love into a family?

by is a charming, funny, and candid journey into the hurdles of infertility. https://t.co/3kxU1T5z5K

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2020-04-16

As a result, I've created this "You're MOO-TASTIC!" Trophy to honor him his first attempt at doing this challenge with me! ^^

Owner of Diana on the Left: AldafiSketchbook
Owner of Antali (Goddess of Fertility) on the Right: Anvitzi

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2020-04-15

Trip to Pasaana🌸
Ben and Rey visit pasaana to find young force sensitives to be trained at their grey jedi academy, and take advantage of the trip to participate in an ancient aki-aki fertility ritual.

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2020-04-12

I have been enticed by the Goddess of Fertility and Agriculture.
I cant wait for her arrival!

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2020-04-10

I've been waiting for this In keeping with today's theme, I bring the Slavic god Yarilo (sort of my namesake), whose name in Ukrainian means Spring. He's also the deity of fire, fertility and the ferocity of life, wears flower crowns and rides a white horse.

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2020-04-09

Long associated with childbirth, the stork is a fertility symbol that is also linked to birth & springtime. The tale of storks delivering newborn babies to their mothers is told to children throughout North America & Europe.

Vintage illustration, source unknown.

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2020-04-09

Witer, God of Fertility

another Fan art for , praise him with 210 and hone your seductive, god will bless you well~

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2020-04-04

Artist Releases Graphic Novel About IVF Ahead Of National Infertility Awareness Week.
https://t.co/5gEBZK2ldY

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2020-04-03

First comes love. Then comes marriage. Then comes baby? Well, maybe. Follow Guillaume and Emma's touching and surprisingly funny journey to tentative parenthood with by sale today! https://t.co/3kxU1Tnauk

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2020-04-01

A bee deity character I made during my university course. They are a god of fertility and worshipped by a congregation of plant people.

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2020-03-27

Going to be exploring more about taino mythology for my current project. Currently working on a sketch of Atabey, supreme deity and goddess of fresh water and fertility.
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2020-03-26

Joining in with so here's a lovely illustration of cardamom, known as ‘chief of all seeds’ by 17thc herbalists due to wide ranging medicinal properties. Was also used in folk medicine as a fertility treatment

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2020-03-20