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Fertility Cults Re-Assessed: A Comparative Mythological Study Of Fertility Deities

Author(s) Ms. Abhranta Sunil Shriwastav
Country India
Abstract The paper attempts to do a comparative study of fertility cults using secondary sources across five ancient and living mythological traditions — Lajja Gauri (India), Artemis (Greece), Drukpa Kunley (Bhutan/Tibet), Kokopelli (South-western North America), and Hapi (Egypt) using secondary sources in order to examine how societies knitted their fears about reproduction, agrarian survival, and mortality into divine form. With a comparative-mythological framework that draws on naturalistic, structural, psychological, phylogenetic, and linguistic approaches, the paper argues that fertility deities in different geographical and cultural contexts had shared outlook: the explicit display of reproductive anatomy, the association of destructive and generative power to a single deity and a possible cross cultural amalgamation between goddesses of geographically adjacent regions. The paper further highlights that fertility was not only associated with females but people in the past had fluid gender boundaries based on rationality and logic. Relying on archaeological, epigraphic, and literary evidence, the paper concludes that fertility cult worship is still prevalent in the twenty-first century but in a transformed form. This can be witnessed through rituals, festivals, and folklores indicating that its significance remains psychologically, culturally and socially functional.
Keywords Fertility cults, Fertility deities, Comparative mythology, Ancient religion, Ritual and fertility.
Field Sociology > Archaeology / History
Published In Volume 7, Issue 4, July-August 2026
Published On 2026-07-30
DOI https://doi.org/10.63363/aijfr.2026.v07i04.7078
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