Sentences with phrase «fertility rites»

"Fertility rites" refers to ceremonies or rituals performed by a group or community to encourage or celebrate the ability of humans, animals, or plants to reproduce and have offspring. These rituals are often believed to help promote fertility and ensure successful pregnancies and abundant harvests. Full definition
The Bible never speaks of the divine genitals, even though surrounding cultures emphasized them in fertility rites.
Likewise Deuteronomy 23:17 - 18 must be pruned from the list, since it most likely refers to a heterosexual «stud» involved in Canaanite fertility rites that have infiltrated Jewish worship; the King James Version inaccurately labeled him a «sodomite.»
He could do so because at the same time he insisted God had no female consort, as the Israelites implied when they used fertility rites to worship him.
Its origins are a mix of legends involving two Christian martyrs, a Roman fertility rite, and the -LSB-...]
Fusing the visual worlds of ancient fertility rites with a stylized contemporary bravado, Iannone, with an unapologetic adulation for the act of lovemaking, transforms the museum's small gallery space into a veritable aesthetic orgy.
Well, people argue over it, but wherever «Easter» (the name) really came from, there definitely seems to be numerous connections between the spring equinox, sunrise, new life, spring, bunnies, eggs, fertility rites, and a sex goddess.
The prevalence of such concepts in Israel is apparent, then, in the vogue of the fertility rites.
And the inclusion of young turkeys, which are born in the spring, suggests some burials were linked to fertility rites, perhaps tied to the planting of crops.
«Mardi Gras is a Christian holiday and popular cultural phenomenon that dates back thousands of years to pagan spring and fertility rites.
Although it started as a less - than - romantic ritual in the Catholic branch of Christianity — fertility rites, wine filled soirees and hook - ups aside — the romanticism of the day is...
Archaeologists believe Barton Creek Cave was used for agricultural and fertility rites, family burials, human sacrifices and ritual bloodlettings.
Visitors will learn that this cave was used by the ancient Maya for a variety of purposes; for example, agricultural rituals, fertility rites, ritual bloodletting, human sacrifice, and lineage internment.
This cave was used by the ancient Maya for rituals such as human sacrifices, bloodletting, and fertility rites.
Sort of like a fertility rite for the snapdragons, may they bloom strong and pink in the spring.
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