In polytheistic religions and mythologies, a fertility god is a male deity who is responsible for ensuring human fertility. They are often known for the use of sexual suggestion, whether direct (such as the phallus), or through symbols. Polytheism is belief in, or worship of, multiple gods or divinities. ... Fertility is the ability of people or animals to produce healthy offspring in abundance. ... The Latin word phallus (from the Greek phallos) and its derived adjective phallic, adopted in English and in many modern languages, refers to the penis. ...

List of fertility gods and related deities and individuals

• Adonis
• Attis
• Baal
• Bes
• Chnum
• Dagon
• Guédé
• Kokopelli
• Laka
• Lono
• Marduk
• Mars
• Min
• Mithras
• Ninurta
• Osiris
• Pan
• Quetesh
• St. Gerard Majella
• St. Raymond Nonnatus
• Shiva
• Sulpa'e
• Tammuz
• Xipe Totec

A 19th-century reproduction of a Greek bronze of Adonis found at Pompeii. ... Attis, a life-death-rebirth deity, was both the son and the lover of Cybele, her eunuch attendant and driver of her lion-driven chariot; he was driven mad by her and castrated himself. ... Baal () is a Semitic title and honorific meaning lord that is used for various gods, spirits and demons particularly of the Levant. ... The god Bes. ... In Egyptian mythology, Chnum (also spelled Khnum, Knum, or Khnemu) was one of the earliest Egyptian gods, originally the god of the source of the Nile River. ... // The ancient god Dagon Dagon was a major northwest Semitic god, the god of grain and agriculture according to the few sources to speak of the matter, worshipped by the early Amorites, by the people of Ebla, by the people of Ugarit and a chief god (perhaps the chief god... In Haitian Vodun, the Guédé (also spelled Gede or Ghede) are the family of spirits that embody the powers of death and fertility. ... Kokopelli is a fertility deity, usually depicted as a humpbacked flute player (often with a huge phallus and antenna-like protrusions on his head), who has been venerated by many Native American cultures in the Southwestern United States. ... In Polynesian mythology (specifically Hawaii), Laka is a fertility goddess of music, dance, rain, and the patron goddess of hula-dancers. ... In Polynesian mythology (specifically: Hawaii), Lono (or Lono-i-ka-makahiki) is a fertility and music god who descended to Earth on a rainbow to marry Laka. ... Marduk [märdook] (Sumerian spelling in Akkadian AMAR.UTU solar calf; Biblical Merodach) was the name of a late generation god from ancient Mesopotamia and patron deity of the city of Babylon, who, when Babylon permanently became the political center of the Euphrates valley in the time of Hammurabi... Mars was the Roman god of war, the son of Juno and a magical flower (or Jupiter). ... Min (sometimes incorrectly transcribed as Chem) was a god and the patron of traveling caravans, in Egyptian mythology, known since the Predynastic Period, and even worshipped by the Scorpion King. ... Mithras and the Bull: fresco from the mithraeum at Marino, Italy, (3rd century) Mithras was the central savior god of Mithraism, a syncretic Hellenistic mystery religion of male initiates that developed in the Eastern Mediterranean in the 2nd and 1st centuries BC and was practiced in the Roman Empire from... Ninurta Lord Plough in Sumerian and Akkadian mythology was the god of Nippur, identified with Ningirsu with whom he may always have been identical. ... Osiris (Greek language, also Usiris; the Egyptian language name is variously transliterated Asar, Aser, Ausar, or Ausare) is the Egyptian God of the dead and the underworld. ... It has been suggested that Pane (mythology) be merged into this article or section. ... Saint Gerard Majella (pronounced JER-rad) is a Catholic saint. ... Saint Raymond Nonnatus (Raymund Nonnatus; Raimundo Nonato; Raymond Nonnat) (1204—1240) is a saint from Catalonia. ... Shiva (Sanskrit: शिव; Hindi: शिव (when used to distinguish lordly status), and written Śiva in the official IAST transliteration, pronounced as is a form of Ishvara or God in the later Vedic scriptures of Hinduism. ... Tammuz or Tamuz Arabic تمّوز Tammūz; Hebrew תַּמּוּז, Standard Hebrew Tammuz, Tiberian Hebrew Tammûz; Akkadian Duʾzu, Dūzu; Sumerian Dumuzi was the name of a Babylonian deity. ... In Aztec mythology, Xipe Totec (our lord the flayed one) was a life-death-rebirth deity, god of agriculture, the west, disease, spring, goldsmiths and the seasons. ...

See also

• Fertility goddess
• Fertility rite

Many cultures developed deities to watch over and promote fertility, pregnancy, and birth. ... Fertility rites are religious rituals that reenact, either actually or symbolically, sexual acts and/or reproductive processes. ...

External link

• Crystalinks Gods and Goddesses of Fertility