Sentences with phrase «as symbols of fertility»
As symbols of fertility, they were believed to bring good luck.
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All the other stuff about Easter (as a holiday), eggs, rabbits etc are directly stolen from pagan fertility symbols that are relevant to the return of earthly fecundity in the Spring.
Ancient and worldly, almonds have appeared throughout civilization from antiquity to modern times, celebrated as a symbol of good luck, fertility and love.
When I was researching for my homework assignment, I learned that the bread is really common around the holidays because the poppy flower is seen as a symbol of good fortune and fertility.
In these cultures the fruit has been seen as a symbol of beauty, fertility, sensuality and strength since ancient times.
Pigeons have been worshipped as fertility goddesses and used as symbols of peace.
Brought to mind was the Venus of Wllendorf — the famous pre-historic figurine, interpreted as a fertility symbol, which has no face, just enormous breasts and vulva.
Not only in the sense that it is it treated as a folkloric fertility symbol despite its debated origins, but also in terms of traditional monumental sculpture: solitary in the changing landscape, the hyper - phallic man is here made to bend at the knees and kneel as in prayer.
In 2010, as part of a 3 - year project based around gender imbalance in India, drawing parallels between the cow — sacred animal and symbol of fertility — and her observance of the undervalued condition of India's women, Nourry created life - like figurative sculptures, the Holy Daughters, that were part sacred cow, part girl, in resin, placing them in the streets of New Delhi before stepping back to film the reactions of local men.