Complex sentence: Gauri is in essence a fertility Goddess, and is venerated as a corn mother which would seem to suggest that she owes her colouring to the hues of ripening grain, for which she is propitiated.
Split into simpler sentences: Gauri is in essence a fertility goddess, and is venerated as a corn mother. She owes her colouring to the hues of ripening grain, for which she is propitiated.