Fertility Gods and rituals

Fertility is defined as the natural capacity to conceive a child. However, fertility does not come easily to everyone. About 11% of couples will face infertility—the inability to conceive naturally after one year of unprotected sexual intercourse.

 

Ala, Igbo goddess of fertility

Asase Ya, Ashanti earth goddess of fertility

Denka, Dinka god of the sky, rain and fertility

Mbaba Mwana Waresa, Zulu goddess of fertility, rainbows, agriculture, rain, and bees

Oshun (known as Ochún or Oxúm in Latin America) also spelled Ọṣun, is an orisha, a spirit, a deity, or a goddess that reflects one of the manifestations of God in the Ifá and Yoruba religions.

 

Min, ancient Kemetic  god of fertility and lettuce

Amun, creator-god, associated with fertility

Bastet, cat goddess sometimes associated with fertility

Hathor, goddess of music, beauty, love, sexuality and fertility

Heqet, frog-goddess of fertility

Heryshaf, god of creation and fertility

Isis, goddess of motherhood, magic and fertility

Mesenet, goddess of childbirth

Min, god of fertility, reproduction, and lettuce

Osiris, god of the afterlife, the dead, and the underworld agency that granted all life, including sprouting vegetation and the fertile flooding of the Nile River

Renenutet, goddess of the true name, the harvest and fertile fields

Sobek, god of the river, warfare and fertility

Sopdet, goddess of the fertility of the soil

Tawaret, goddess of fertility and childbirth

Tefnut, goddess of water and fertility

Yoruba

Eshu

Oya

 

 Kokopelli, Hopi trickster god associated with fertility, childbirth and agriculture

Hanhepi Wi, Lakota goddess associated with the moon, motherhood, family and femininity

 

Astoreth, Canaanite version of Inanna/Ishtar.

Hadad, storm (and thus rain) god responsible for crops growing, also known as Adad and Ba'al

Nikkal, goddess of fruits

Tanit, consort of Baʿal Hammon at Carthage

 

Etruscan

Fufluns, god of plant life, happiness, health, and growth in all things, equivalent to the Greek Dionysus

Thesan, goddess of the dawn, associated with the generation of life

Turan, goddess of love, fertility and vitality

 

Fertility rites are religious rituals that are intended to stimulate reproduction in humans or in the natural world. Such rites may involve the sacrifice of "a primal animal, which must be sacrificed in the cause of fertility or even creation

In Japan the Shinto Kanamara Matsuri, the Festival of the Steel Phallus is held each spring.  The legend is that a jealous sharp-toothed demon hid inside the vagina of a young woman whom the demon fell in love with and bit off penises of two young men on their wedding nights.[6] After that the woman sought help from a blacksmith, who fashioned an iron phallus to break the demon's teeth, which led to the enshrinement of the item.[

 

Fertility Fest is the world’s first arts festival dedicated to fertility, infertility, the science of making babies and modern families.

Fertility rites may occur in calendric cycles, as rites of passage within the life cycle, or as ad hoc rituals....Commonly fertility rituals are embedded within larger-order religions or other social institutions.