Fertility
16 books featuring this theme
Fertility is the capacity for reproduction and abundance in people, animals, and land. It grounds seasonal rites and legitimizes leadership through prosperity.
Rigveda
Anonymous
1200-900 BCE
Indian, Hindu
Atharvaveda
Anonymous
1-1000 CE
Indian, Hindu
Baal Cycle
Anonymous
1300 BCE
Levantine, Ugaritic
Yajurveda
Anonymous
700-200 BCE
Indian, Hindu
Brahmanas
Anonymous
800-500 BCE
Indian, Hindu
Florentine Codex
Bernardino de Sahagún and Nahua collaborators
1540-1577 CE
Mesoamerican, Aztec
Myths of the Dogon
Oral Tradition
1930-1960 CE
African, Dogon
Book of the Earth
Anonymous
1145-1137 BCE
Egyptian
Enki and Ninhursag
Anonymous
2000-1500 BCE
Mesopotamian, Sumerian
Latvian Dainas
Anonymous
1894-1915 CE
Slavic, Latvian
Codex Borbonicus
Anonymous
1519-1530 CE
Mesoamerican, Aztec
Codex Borgia
Anonymous
1500 CE
Mesoamerican, Mixtec
Codex Fejérváry-Mayer
Anonymous
1450-1519 CE
Mesoamerican, Mixtec
Codex Vaticanus B
Anonymous
1400-1600 CE
Mesoamerican, Mixtec
Hymns to Enlil
Anonymous
2000-1600 BCE
Mesopotamian, Sumerian
On the Syrian Goddess
Lucian of Samosata
100-200 CE
Greek, undefined