The Sakha Yhyakh festival ( literally it can be translated as " abundance " ) is related to a cult of a solar deity, with a fertility cult.
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Less than an inch ( 2.5 centimeters ) high and recognizable only through a magnifying lens, it is one of a series of female minisculptures of ancient fertility cults.
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Echoing these views, in 1999 English historian Ronald Hutton stated that Ginzburg's ideas regarding shamanistic fertility cults were actually " pretty much the opposite " of what Murray had posited.
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Sculpture is represented by the so-called " Venus figurines ", feminine figures which were probably used in fertility cults, such as the " Venus of Willendorf ".
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In one of the more popular works on the subject, " From Ritual to Romance ", author Jessie Weston suggested that the origin of the motif lies with an otherwise unattested pagan fertility cult.
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In his book " Beowulf and Grendel ", he argues that the Anglo-Saxon poem " Beowulf " is based on a memory of the quelling of this fertility cult by followers of Odin.
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"Grigsby sees the work as a poetic account of forceful suppression of an older fertility cult, with human sacrifice central to its religion, in 5th-century England, and its replacement by an incoming warrior cult.
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Candi Sukuh temple of Ngancar, East Java, was built in the 10th century and is dedicated to Shiva and is evidence of Tantric ritual in Hinduism and the fertility cult practiced at the time and preoccupation with the " lingga ".
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Murray, who propagated the witch-cult hypothesis, speculated in her book " The Witch-Cult in Western Europe " that Gilles de Rais was really a witch and adherent of a fertility cult centered on the pagan goddess, Diana.
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In the 20th century, theologians like J�rgen Moltmann, Hans K�ng, pagan faiths, within which homosexual acts featured as part of idolatrous religious practices : " England argues that these prohibitions should be seen as being directed against sexual practices of fertility cult worship.
