"I have a third, a motif of a native American fertility God, and it's here, " he said, pointing to the right side of his groin.
22.
The Holly King is often portrayed as a woodsy figure, similar to the modern Santa Claus, dressed in red with sprigs of holly in his hair and the Oak King as a fertility god.
23.
Hadrian, a very well-traveled emperor, borrowed these designs, such as the caryatids by the Canopus, along with the statues beside them depicting the Egyptian dwarf and fertility god, Bes.
24.
The references in the " dinsenchas " ( " place-lore " ) poem in the 12th century to sacrifice in exchange for milk and grain suggest that Crom had a function as fertility god.
25.
Puemonos's name seems to be related with Roman goddess Pomona; moreover both the name itself and the epithet " Popricos " ( " Publicus " ) hint towards a universal fertility god, similar to Latin god Liber.
26.
At each ahupuaa ( each community also is called an " ahupuaa " ) the caretakers of that community presented hookupu to the Lono image, a fertility god who caused things to grow and who gave plenty and prosperity to the islands.
27.
Hilda Ellis Davidson says that " there seems ample indication that Gefjon represents one aspect of a once powerful goddess of the north, the figure representing in Scandinavian myths as either Frigg, the wife of Odin, or Freyja, sister of fertility god Freyr.
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However, he did believe that, while " gnosis " referred to knowledge, and " wicca " referred to wisdom, modern witches had fallen away from the true knowledge, and instead had begun worshipping a fertility god, a reflection of the creator god.
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In a later incidence, Gregory of Tours places in the mouth of Clotilda, the wife of Clovis I, an " interpretatio Romana " of the Frankish fertility god with the Roman Saturn in a tirade against the pagan gods, naming this god first.
30.
Three years ago, Gananath Obeyesekere, an academic anthropologist originally from Sri Lanka, wrote a widely noted book challenging one of the accepted facts about the exploration of the Pacific, that Cook was taken by the Hawaiians to be an incarnation of a fertility god called Lono.
