List of Fertility Deities - Greek Mythology

Greek Mythology

  • Adonis, a figure associated with death, rebirth and vegetation
  • Aphaea, local goddess associated with fertility and the agricultural cycle
  • Aphrodite, goddess of love, beauty and sexuality
  • Aphroditus, god of male and female unity, the moon and fertility
  • Artemis, goddess of the hunt, wild animals, wilderness, childbirth, virginity, fertility, young girls and health and disease in women
  • Cybele, Phrygian Earth Mother goddess who embodies the fertile earth
  • Demeter, goddess of agriculture and the fertility of the earth
  • Dionysus, god of wine and festivity, associated with fertility
  • Eros, god of sexual love, fertility and beauty
  • Gaia, Earth Mother and goddess of the fertile earth
  • Hera, goddess of the air, marriage, women, women's fertility, childbirth, heirs, kings and empires
  • Hermes, god of roads, commerce, invention, and theft; herald and messenger of the gods
  • Ilithyia, goddess of childbirth and midwifery
  • Pan, god of shepherds, flocks, mountain wilds, hunting and rustic music; associated with fertility
  • Persephone, daughter of Zeus and Demeter; abducted by Pluto to be queen of Hades, but allowed to return to the surface of earth for part of the year.
  • Phanes, primeval deity of procreation and the generation of new life
  • Priapus, rustic god of fertility, protection of livestock, fruit plants, gardens and male genitalia
  • Poseidon, God of the sea, Storms, earthquakes, and is often associated with Fertilty within the Sea.

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