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Ambarvalia (576 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Ambarvalia was a Roman agricultural fertility rite, involving animal sacrifices and held on 29 May in honor of Ceres, Bacchus and Dea Dia. However, the

Atete (100 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

worshipped at Kafa (Ethiopia). It is probably the subject of an ancient fertility rite performed by women who collect various sacred plants and throw them

Vicuña (2,369 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

people still perform special rituals with these creatures, including a fertility rite.[citation needed] The vicuña is considered more delicate and gracile

Rocha dos Namorados (475 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

example of the veneration of stones associated with a secular, pagan fertility rite that has continued to the present. The stone is more than two meters

Sadie Hawkins Day (711 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the romantic pursuers. Arthur Berger says that the day "represents a fertility rite and awakens an awareness of the relationship between the American courtship

Ukrainian wreath (742 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

associated with the wreath in Ukraine, was in fact originally a pagan fertility rite. Like most Ukrainian folk dress, the vinok had significant symbolic

Tattaguine (933 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

There is also the Bok ceremony for young married women. This is a fertility rite. The Misse is a religious dance. It takes place once year in April which

Ottawa Dragon Boat Festival (846 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the life-sustaining riverbanks in the valleys of southern China as a fertility rite performed to ensure bountiful crops. The first participants held their

Erbalunga (695 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

on Good Friday—a ceremony called Cerca, originating from an ancient fertility rite—and a procession celebrating his saint's day (2 June) with a blessing

Daunians (1,821 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the tattooing custom in the Balkans was originally connected with a fertility rite, being associated with the beginning of menstruation, thus proving that

Malinithan (1,287 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

different postures, it is believed that tantricism prevailed here as a fertility rite of the primitive tribal people who held the "mother principal as the

Lupercalia (2,046 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

of goats and a dog by the Luperci; offering of cakes by the Vestals; fertility rite in which the goatskin-clad Luperci strike women who wish to conceive

Immigrant Song (2,134 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

like some cannibal chorus wailing in the infernal light of a savage fertility rite." In March 2023, Rolling Stone ranked "Immigrant Song" at number 18

Abbots Bromley Horn Dance (1,952 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Violet Alford believed that the dance was originally a winter solstice fertility rite. Alternatively it has been suggested that it originally was connected

Magical tools in Wicca (2,114 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

often lit within the vessel and the flames are leaped over as a simple fertility rite, or at the end of a handfasting. If filled with water, a cauldron can

Tribal youth dormitory (1,302 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

among some Naga tribes. The Semas built miniature dormitories as a fertility rite. V. R. Reddy 1997, p. 216. R. S. Mann 1993, p. 37-38. Tiasunep 2019

Cooper's Hill Cheese-Rolling and Wake (3,356 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the top of the hill by the Master of Ceremonies. This is said to be a fertility rite to encourage the fruits of harvest. In 1982, a team of students from

Scone, Scotland (3,456 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

rituals of native kingship, what D. A. Binchy describes as "an archaic fertility rite of a type associated with primitive kingship the world over". Certainly

Khnum (2,844 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

ancient rituals and festivals would take place. Among these was a fertility rite, exclusively participated in by women seeking to conceive, with male

Celtic sacred trees (1,902 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

cut a bough of mistletoe, and sacrificed two white bulls as part of a fertility rite. Britons under Roman occupation worshipped a goddess of the oak tree

The Mists of Avalon (miniseries) (3,355 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

few days later, on Beltane, Viviane sends Morgaine to be a part of a fertility rite as "The Virgin Huntress", where Morgaine is to make love to the man

A Caress of Twilight (1,127 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Court and now a famous Hollywood actress. Maeve asks Merry to perform a fertility rite that will permit her to have a child by her dying human husband. In

Potosí (4,051 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

range Potosi (barque) Tinku – A local combat ritual and agricultural fertility rite El Tio Mapuche silver finery Cervecería Potosina, one of few Bolivian

'Obby 'Oss festival (2,832 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

town in 1985 he found locals describing it to him as an ancient pagan fertility rite. In the 1950s Alan Lomax, then in London and working for the BBC, and

List of Etruscan mythological figures (1,213 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

into a wall in her temple during the Etruscan new year festival as a fertility rite. Orcus Etruscan god of the underworld, punisher of broken oaths. He

Meitei people (3,820 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

original on 2 August 2023. Retrieved 2 August 2023. "Lai Haraoba - a fertility rite of the Meitei". Imphal Free Press. Archived from the original on 2 August

Montag aus Licht (2,958 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

processions of torches, candles, or other forms of fire, is found as a fertility rite in many world traditions, such as the Egyptian Feast of Lamps for Osiris

The Da Vinci Code (5,404 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

home unexpectedly from university, Neveu secretly witnessed a spring fertility rite conducted in the secret basement of her grandfather's country estate

Bal des Ardents (3,993 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

effigie", he writes, "contrary to the Bal des Ardents where the seasonal fertility rite had watered down to courtly entertainment, but where burning had been

Red April (1,533 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the Inkarrí as related cogently by Father Quiroz, festivals like the fertility rite and Turu pukllay (indigenous bullfight) (cf., photo [1]), the Holy Week

Christmas in Finland (1,272 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

and Finland, joulupukki (Christmas goat) was a man who dressed as a fertility rite character, a goat. He put goat horns on his head as in shamanistic tradition

Anca Giurchescu (2,852 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

study the ritual aspects of căluș, a traditional Romanian healing and fertility rite. Performed in the spring, it incorporates dance in ceremonial performances

The Night Battles (4,328 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

forces of plenty. He suspected that this was a survival from an "older fertility rite" that had originated in pre-Christian Europe but which had subsequently

History of human sexuality (8,119 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

queen lying with the dead horse in a simulated sexual act; clearly a fertility rite intended to safeguard and increase the kingdom's productivity and martial

Midsummer (11,800 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Before the day was named for St John, this was a celebration of a pagan fertility rite involving bathing in water. Since St John the Baptist's birth is celebrated

Lacandon people (7,331 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

are for a myriad of reasons including; feeding a particular god, a fertility rite, to help with agriculture, and frequently in response to illness. As

Hong Kong Morris (3,123 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

on the grounds that morris dancing was a survival of a pre-Christian fertility rite. This myth was exploded with the publication in 1999 of A History of

Astarte (14,591 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

hypostasis of ʿAṯtar, in whose honour sacred hunts were performed as fertility rite. This hunter aspect of ʿAṯtart later faded away by the 1st millennium

The Tale of Januarie (1,621 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Act 1 Winter Pavia. Lombardy. The townsfolk are performing the annual fertility rite around the pear tree. Januarie, a wealthy, but ageing knight, comes

Cultrun (2,884 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

for religious and cultural rituals. It is also used during the annual fertility rite of Ngillatun. It is approximately 35 to 40 cm in diameter and has a

Sexuality in ancient Rome (34,866 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

as late as the 5th century of the Christian era, included an archaic fertility rite. The Floralia featured nude dancing. At certain religious festivals

List of Midsomer Murders episodes (256 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the Reverend Conrad Walker, is appalled at plans to revive an ancient fertility rite known as 'The Stag,' and soon afterwards is himself murdered. Upon discovering

Women in classical Athens (7,717 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

women. The most important women's festival was the Thesmophoria, a fertility rite for Demeter which was observed by married noblewomen. During the festival

Horses in Breton culture (6,181 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

function. It has ancient roots. The bathing of horses is attested to as a fertility rite in many parts of the world, notably in Celtic countries. Most horse

The horse in Nordic mythology (6,893 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Scandinavia until the 19th century, and ethnological evidence links them to a fertility rite. Archaeological findings, particularly in Iceland in the 10th century

Circumcision controversies (10,477 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

and probably had been for more than 1,000 years, most likely as a fertility rite. Herodotus had noticed the practice among various Semite nations in