| 1. | Agriculture might have had a religious component, given various fertility cults.
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| 2. | Peter Glob believed that they were carved by an ancient fertility cult.
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| 3. | The reference to public prostitution may be a memory of fertility cult practices.
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| 4. | Possibly based on a 16th-century Italian fertility cult, the Benandanti.
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| 5. | Are they related to fertility cults, to Celtic goddesses ( or gods )?
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| 6. | Horses were prominent symbols of fertility, and there were many horse fertility cults.
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| 7. | As a deity of pulque, Tepoztecatl was associated with fertility cults and Tlaloc.
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| 8. | He speculated that they were objects of worship, perhaps part of a fertility cult.
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| 9. | However, in late antiquity, Eros was worshiped by a fertility cult in Thespiae.
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| 10. | Rather, they summon up the archaic worlds of Greek temple sculpture or Babylonian fertility cults.
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